Simon Scheider

Simon Scheider is an Associate Professor of GIS in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, Netherlands. His research focuses on conceptual modeling of geographic data, semantic web technologies, and geospatial analysis. He holds a Ph.D. in Geoinformatics from the University of Münster (2012) and has held postdoctoral roles at UC Santa Barbara, ETH Zurich, and other institutions before joining Utrecht in 2016. He received tenure in 2018 and became Associate Professor in 2024.

Key achievements include an ERC Starting Grant (2018) for geographic question-answering research and an ERC Consolidator Grant (2024) for automatic geoQA systems. He leads the NWO-funded Exposome-NL project (since 2020), simulating urban policy impacts on citizen health. Scheider co-organized AGILE 2023 and COSIT 2024, and serves on editorial boards for journals like Applied Ontology and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

Research interests span spatial semantics, geocomputation, and human-centered AI. Recent work addresses validity in spatio-temporal models, extensive/intensive quantities in geographic data, and integrating LLMs with GIS. His teaching includes Advanced GIS, Spatial Data Analysis (ADS), and National GI Minor courses.