Carsten Keßler

Carsten Keßler is a Professor at the Department of Sustainability and Planning within The Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University. He holds adjunct professorships at Bochum University of Applied Sciences (since 2021) and the Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York (2017–2021). His research focuses on geoinformatics, population dynamics, migration patterns, and spatial data infrastructure.

• Education: Not explicitly listed in provided texts, but his academic rank implies doctoral qualification.

Key research areas include:
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for urban and environmental analysis.
- Migration studies, including historical migration patterns and future migration scenarios for Europe.
- Spatial data infrastructure development and open educational resources for GIScience.
- Machine learning applications in population modeling and environmental projections.

He leads/co-leads projects such as FUME: Future Migration Scenarios for Europe (2019–2023) and EO4SDG: Earth Observation and Deep Learning for Sustainable Development. His work has produced over 75 publications, with recent focus on climate resilience, urban heatwaves, and geoprivacy.

Notable awards include a prize for High-resolution spatialized population projections (2017). He actively contributes to academic peer review, conferences, and educational initiatives in geoinformatics.