CURRICULUM VITAE Professor dr. Henk J. Scholten
SPINLAB, Center for Research and Education on Spatial Information
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Professor dr. Henk Scholten is professor in Spatial Informatics at the Faculty of Business Economics at the Free University in Amsterdam and Scientific Director of the SPINlab, Center for Research and Education on Spatial Information at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (http://www.spinlab.vu.nl/).
Professor Scholten is director of the Post Academic course UNIGIS, which leads to a Master of Science degree in GIS (Geographical Information Systems) at the Free University of Amsterdam (http://www.feweb.vu.nl/unigis/). Professor Scholten is president of UNIGIS International, the association of 17 universities around the world that coordinates education and research in GIS (http://www.unigis.com/). Professor Scholten has written various articles about GIS for publication in international books and journals. The book 'Application of GIS in Urban and Regional Planning' was published in 1990. The book 'The Added Value of Geographical Information Systems in Public and Environmental Health' was published in 1995. The book 'Spatial Analytical Perspectives on GIS' was published in 1997 and in 2001 the book ‘Land Use Simulation for Europe’ was published. Professor Scholten is co-founder and CEO of Geodan in Amsterdam. Geodan specializes in Geographical Information Systems. Since its foundation in 1985 Geodan has grown into an independent group of companies with more than 80 employees, giving form and contents to all the aspects of the Geographical Information Systems (http://www.geodan.com). In his role as director of Geodan, professor Scholten has been supervisor on a large number of national and international GIS projects. Professor Scholten is advisor for several ministries in different countries. For the European Union professor Scholten was coordinating the European Spatial Meta Information Infrastructure (ESMI). For the Dutch Government professor Scholten is advisor of the Dutch National Clearinghouse Foundation for Geo-information. The mission of the foundation is to establish an information infrastructure for geo information (http://www.ncgi.nl). On Friday April 29th, 2005, Prof. Scholten received a Royal Decoration for his significant contribution to geo-information, both on a national and international level.
Date of Birth: Nationality: Key Skills relevant to Proposed Position: GIS research expertise and knowledge.
ODL curriculum development and delivery.
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor in Spatial Informatics, Department of Regional Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Director UNIGIS, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Scientific Director SPINLAB, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Project Manager Geographical Information Systems (RIVM) National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection.
Assistant Professor, department of Geography, University of Utrecht, Utrecht.
Senior Regional Planner, National Physical Planning Agency (RPD), Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, The Hague.
Assistant Professor, department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Teacher of Mathematics & Geography, Haarlemmermeer Lyceum (High School), Badhoevedorp.
GIS PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Acquirement, implementation and development of a GIS for the National Physical Planning Agency.
Project leader RIA-project (Regional Information by Automation) Ministry of Housing, Physical planning and Environment.
Director Summer Institute on GIS, Amsterdam.
Acquirement, implementation and development of MILGIS, the Dutch Environmental GIS of the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection.
Co-organizer European GIS Conference (EGIS'90-91-92-93-94, JEC '95-96-97).
Temporary advisor of WHO, Headquarters, for Application of GIS in Rapid Assessment.
Temporary advisor of WHO, Regional Office for Europe, the development of a GIS for environmental and public health, HEGIS.
GIS-consultant Dutch Ministry of Traffic and Transport.
GIS-consultant, Region of Lombardia (Milan It.).
GIS-consultant, Voivodship of Katowice, 1992 Poland.
GIS-Advisor, Flamish Ministry of Technology Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Planning of a GIS Research Program for the European universities, European Science Foundation.
Member of the Steering Committee GISDATA, GIS Research Program for the European universities, European Science Foundation.
Director of the GIS Summer Institute on Explorative Spatial Data Analysis, Amsterdam.
Director GIS Workshop Spatial Data Analysis, Amsterdam
Co-organiser European GIS in Business 1994.
GIS-Advisor International Center for Pesticides, Italy.
Project leader "Space Explorer" for the European Commission.
GIS advisor of the Ministry of Planning, Iceland.
Coordinator of 'ESMI', European Spatial Meta data Information Infrastructure European Union
Scientific GIS advisor of the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection
GIS advisor of the Ministry of Agriculture, DLG.
GIS advisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, SHERPA, the Dutch Police
GIS advisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, P-Info, Mobile Information Systems for the Dutch Police.
Director of UNIGIS Winter School, University of Salamanca/ Madrid, Spain
Director of the Vespucci Summer School on GI Science, Location Based
Director of the Vespucci Summer School on GI Science, Risk Management, Florence, Italy
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- President of the UNIGIS International Association
- Advisor of the Dutch National Clearinghouse Foundation
- Secretary of the organizing committee of the European GIS conferences
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Dutch GIS Foundation (RAVI)
- Member of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society
- Member of the Dutch Demographical Society
- Member of the NIROV, Association of Dutch Planners
LANGUAGE SKILLS
LANGUAGE Reading Speaking Writing IT LITERACY Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/XP, UNIX Software:
Knowledge of a wide range of GIS software.
Several Programming Languages : Fortran, Pascal, C
WWW:
Knowledge of a range of Web authoring packages and Plug in applications.
PROMOTIONS, phd-research Wim Douven, "Improving the Accessibility of Spatial Information for
Environmental Management An Application to Pesticide Risk Management"
Michel Grothe, "Keuze voor Ruimte, Ruimte voor Keuze" Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederland
01-04-1999 Marjan Herwijnen, "Spatial Decision Support for Environmental
Management" Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederland
12-10-1999 Martin Misseyer, "Time, Area, Substance and Human Activity Referenced
18 -05-2001 Vania Ceccato, "Understanding Urban Patterns: Qualitative and Quantitative
Royal Institute of Technology -KTH - Stockholm, Sweden
17-07-2001 Theresa Isabel Lopez Ramao, "Environmental Engineering". Rui Pedro Juliao, "Geographical Information Technologies and Regional
Science - Methodological Contributions for the Definition of Decision Support
03-09-2002 Davide Geneletti - "Ecological Evaluation for Environmental Impact
Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde
Christiane Boehner - "Urban Environmental Management"
Vrije Universiteit, Factulteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde
Karen Fabbri - "A Framework for Structuring Strategic Decision Situation in
Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde
Oddrun Uran– “Spatial Decision Support Systems for Coastal Zone and Water
Management”
Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde
Joost Buurman – “Rural land Markets, a spatial explanatory model”
Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde
MSC Theses
More than 50 Msc Theses have been supervised
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS Author of over 100 GIS related academic and professional articles, book chapter and books. A selection is listed below: Uran, O., Rietveld, P., Janssen, R. & Scholten, H.J. (2005). Spatial decision support systems: a
user's perspective. Journal of geographic information and decision analysis.
Dias, E.S., Beinat, E. & Scholten, H.J. (2004). Effects of Mobile Information Sharing in Natural
Parks. In -- (Ed.), Proceedings of ENVIROINFO 2004. Geneva: CERN.
Bregt, A., Crompvoets, J., Scholten, H.J. & Crommert, P. van de (2004). Die Niederlandische
Nationale Geodateninfrastruktur - Ruckblick, Gegewart und Zukunft. In Bernard, L., Fitzke, J. & Wagner, R.M. (Ed.), Geodateninfrastruktur: Grundlagen und Anmwndungen. (pp. 29-37). Heidelberg: Herbert Wichmann Verlag, Huthig GmbH & Co.KG.
Dekkers, J.E.C., Rietveld, P., Brink, A. van de & Scholten, H.J. (2004). Exploring the land
market in the province of Noord-Holland using a spatial regression model. In -- (Ed.), 44th Congress of the European Regional Science Association. Porto Portugal: University of Porto Portugal.
Togt, R. van der, Beinat, E. & Scholten, H.J. (2004). Location-based emergency medicine,
medical location services for emergency management: information and coordination of rescue resources. Paper for the first congress of the International community on information systems for crisis response and management. Brussels, Belgium: (ISCRAM).
Geneletti, D., Beinat, E., Fabbri, A.G. & Scholten, H.J. (2004). Prediction of the ecosystem loss
impact using a GIS. In Geneletti, D. (Ed.), Qualita dell'Ambiente e Gestione del Territorio. (pp. 133-138).
Buurman, J.J.G., Brink, A. van de, Scholten, H.J. & Dekkers, J.E.C. (2004). Ruimtelijke beleid
en grondprijzen in het landelijk gebied. Tijdschrift voor Sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek in de Landbouw, 19(3).
Dekkers, J.E.C., Scholten, H.J. & Camara, A. (2004). The AquaMobile Case - Challenges of
geovisualisation on mobile devices. European Journal of Navigation, 2(2), 57-69.
Koomen, E., Kaufholz, R, Rietveld, P. & Scholten, H.J. (2004). 3D-GIS and Urban Volume:
applying the third dimension in a morphological study of the Amsterdam Urban Landscape. In Toppen, F. & Prestacos, P. (Ed.), AGILE 2004 Conference Proceedings. (pp. 139-147). Heraklion Crete Greece: Crete University Press.
Geneletti, D., Beinat, E., Chung, C.F., Fabbri, A.G. & Scholten, H.J. (2003). Accounting for
uncertainty factors in biodiversity impact assessment: lessons from a case study. Environmental Impact Assessment, 23, 471-487.
Geneletti, D., Beinat, E., Fabbri, A.G. & Scholten, H.J. (2003). Prediction of the ecosystem-loss
impact using a GIS. Acta Geologica.
Ale, B.J. & Scholten, H.J. (2003). Risico register en risico kaarten voor iedereen toegankelijk. VI Scholten, H.J., R. van de Velde and J. Borsboom, 2001, Ruimte Scanner, Nederland
Geografische Studies, Nederlandse Geografische Studies, KNAG, publishers, Utrecht
Stillwell, J. and H.J. Scholten, 2001, Land Use Simulation for Europe, Kluwer Buurman, J.J.G., P. Rietveld and H.J. Scholten, ‘The land market: a spatial economic
perspective’, in: J. Stillwell and H.J. Scholten (eds.), Land use simulation for Europe, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 2001.
Schotten, C.G.J., R. Goetgeluk, M. Hilferink, P. Rietveld & H.J. Scholten (2001), Residential
construction, land use and the environment. Simulations for The Netherlands using a GIS-based land use model. In: Environmental modeling and assessment 6: 133-143.
Romao, T.I., Dias, A.E., Camara, A.S., Buurman, J. and Scholten, H.J. ‘Decision
Support Tools for Coastal Zone Management: Providing Decision Makers with Useful Information Through Multidimensional Visualisation Techniques’, in: International Journal of Development Planning Literature, Vol. 15, No. 1, January- March, 2000, pp. 33-40
Scholten H. J, R.van de Velde, P.Rietveld & M. Hilferink, Spatial Information Infrastructure for
Scenario Planning, The Development of a Land Use Planner for Holland, In: Geographical Information and Planning, J. Stillwell, S. Geertman and S. Openshaw (eds.),2000, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 112-134
Abrue, J., Scholten, H. J, Eijnden, van den B., Gehrels, B., ‘Combining Spatial Metadata Search-
Engines with Webmapping’ in: GIS, Journal for Spatial Information and Decision Making, Vol. 13, Oktober 2000, pag.8-11
Scholten, H.J. and Buurman, J. "Geschiedenis en Ontwikkeling van GIS in Nederland en Europa",
in: Kartografisch Tijdschrift, jaargang XXVI, nummer 3, 2000, pag. 5-10
Romão T., A. S. Camara, M. Molendijk & H.J. Scholten, 1999, CoastMAP: aerial photograph
based mosaics in coastal zone management, in: Spatial Multimedia and Virtual Reality, A.S. Camara and J. Raper (eds.), Taylor & Francis, London, pp 59-70.
Cattenstart F. J & H. J. Scholten, 1999, Towards OpenGIS Systems, The Vector Data Storage
Component Evaluated, In: Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, A. Bekovski, K.Brassel & H. Schek (eds), Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp 163-176.
Scholten, H.J., A.J. LoCashio & T. Overduin, 1999, Towards a spatial information infrastructure
for flood management in The Netherlands, In: Special features in coastal conservation 3, eds J. Visser & R. Misdorp, Opulus Press, Uppsala, pp 151-160.
Nijkamp P. & H.J. Scholten, 1999, New interoperable planning tools for sustainable land use,
Research Memorandum 1999-35, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 11p.
Nijkamp P. & H. J. Scholten, 1999, Nuovi strumenti interattivi di pianificazione per l’uso
sostenibile del suolo, in: Urbanistica, Instituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, Roma, pp 176-182.
Hernandez, T., H. J. Scholten, D. Bennison, M. Biasiotto, S. Cornelius and M. van der Beek,
Explaning Retail GIS: The adoption, use and development of GIS by retail organisations in the
Netherlands, the UK and Canada, Nederlandse Geografische Studies 258, KNAG, Utrecht , 200p.
Romao, T.I., Dias, A.E., Sousa, I., Molendijk, M., Scholten, H.J., 1997, Multidimensional
Visualisation Tools in Coastal Zone Management. JEC-GI ’97 Proceedings Vol. 1, pag. 402-411, IOS Pres/Ohmsha.
Fischer M., Scholten H.J., Unwin, D. 1997 (eds.), Spatial Analytical Perspectives on GIS, GISData Scholten, H.J., LoCashio, A., 1997, GIS Application Research: History, Trends and Developments,
ESF, Geographic Information Research at the Millenium; GISDATA final conference, Le Bischenberg, France, 13-17 September 1997, Pag. 38-51.
Scholten, H.J., Bonn, B., 1997, Fighting the deluge with Data, GIS Europe October 1997 vol.6, nr. Scholten, H.J., Bonn, B., LoCashio, A., 1997, Towards a European Spatial (Meta)data
Infrastructure Presented at DGIII Conference on Strategic Developments, Leuven, Juni 1997.
Douven, W.J.A.M. and H.J. Scholten, 1996, A Geo Information Infrastructure for the Admission
of Pesticides in Europe. In: M. Rumor, R. McMillan and H.F.L. Ottens (eds.). Proceedings Second Joint European Conference and Exhibition on Geographical Information Barcelona, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
Scholten, H.J. & LoCashio, A. (1997). Flood. How to react adequately and on time in case of
emergency. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 15, 22-28.
Romao, T., A. Camara, M. Molendijk and H.J. Scholten 1996, Coastmap: A Collaborative Spatial
Multimedia System for Coastal Management. Proceedings Second Joint European Conference and Exhibition on Geographical Information Barcelona, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
Lepper, M.J.C. de, H.J. Scholten and R.M. Stern 1995, The Added Value of Geographical
Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Harts, J.J., H.F.L. Ottens and H.J. Scholten 1993 (eds.) , EGIS/MARI '94: Paris-France, March 29
- April 1. Conference Proceedings. EGIS Foundation, Utrecht/Amsterdam.
Dorf, J., H.J. Scholten and R.J. van de Velde 1993, Meta-Catalog: a Necessary Requirement for
European Environmental Research. In: Harts J.J., H.F.J. Ottens and H.J. Scholten (eds.); EGIS '93 EGIS Foundation, Utrecht/Amsterdam p. 636-643.
Douven, W.J.A.M., M. Grothe, P. Nijkamp and H.J. Scholten 1993: The Links between Mobility
and Sustainability. In: Masser I., H.J. Onsrud, (eds.); Diffusion and Use of Geographic Information Technologies. Kluwer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, p. 317-337.
Douven, W.J.A.M., M. Grothe, P. Nijkamp and H.J. Scholten 1993 Urban and Regional Planning
Models and GIS. In: Masser I., H.J. Onsrud, (eds.); Diffusion and Use of Geographic Information Technologies. Kluwer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1993, p. 317-337.
Kok, B. and H.J. Scholten 1993 The Fundamental Conditions for the Application of GIS: The
Coordination and Exchange of the Geographic Core Data Set. In: EGIS '93. J.J. Harts, H.F.L. Ottens and H.J. Scholten 1993 (eds.); EGIS Foundation, Utrecht/Amsterdam, 1993, p. 1497- 1506.
Nijkamp, P. and H.J. Scholten 1993 Spatial Information Systems: Design, Modelling and Us in
Planning. In: International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 1, 7, p. 85-96.
Harts, J.J., H.F.L. Ottens and H.J. Scholten 1991 (eds.), EGIS '91: Brussel. Conference
Proceedings. EGIS Foundation, Utrecht/Amsterdam.
Scholten, H.J. and P. Padding 1990, GIS in a Policy Environment. In: Environment and Planning
B: Planning and Design, 17, pp. 405-416, London.
Harts, J.J., H.F.L. Ottens and H.J.Scholten 1990, EGIS'90 and the Development and Application of
Geographical Information Systems in Europe, pp. 1-11, EGIS foundation, Utrecht.
Scholten, H.J., Stillwell J.C.H. 1990, Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional
Planning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Delft.
Harts, J.J., H.F.L. Ottens and H.J. Scholten 1990 (eds.), EGIS '90: Amsterdam. Conference
Proceedings. EGIS Foundation, Utrecht/Amsterdam.
Scholten, H.J. and J. Stillwell 1989, Comparative research, selected themes and data
characteristics. In: Stillwell, J. and H.J. Scholten, Comparative Studies in Population Geography, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
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