Claudia Kuenzer is head of the department "Land Surface Dynamics" at the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and full Professor at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

Claudia's focus is on global change based on the analytics of large, multi-sensor EO data archives.

The internationally recognized department contributes to a large array of third party funded projects and liases with science, industry, decision makers and society.

Dr. Claudia Kuenzer received her PhD from Vienna University of Technology in 2005 and is head of the group ‘Land Surface Dynamics’ at the German Earth Observation Centre, EOC, of the German Aerospace Centre, DLR.

The currently 18 scientists within this group are involved in earth observation data analyses, monitoring dynamic processes such as landuse change, phenology, inundation and coastal dynamics - to name only a few examples.

The group contributes to over 10 third party funded remote sensing projects in different locations globally. Dr. Kuenzer is scientific coordinator of the BMBF - MOST-CN funded DELIGHT Project (Delta Information System for Geoenvironmental and Human Habitat Transition in the Yellow River Delta, China), as well as of the BMBF – MOST-VN funded project CATCH-MEKONG (on Upstream Downstream influences in the transboundary Mekong Basin). She frequently lectures and has lectured for the Universities of Wuerzburg, Vienna University of Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences, and the European Space Agency, ESA.

Dr. Kuenzer is head of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Thermal Remote Sensing, and a Scientific Steering Committee member of the LOICZ (Land and Ocean Interaction on the Coastal Zone) programme under Future Earth.

She was elected as member of the Euorpean Academy of Engineering in 2016.