Associate Professor Dr. Andreas Persson is a permanent lecturer and researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis and at the Lund University GIS Centre for more than a decade. He has coordinated several work packages and research projects in capacity building projects in Africa and the Middle East, including Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation window and Erasmus +. Dr Persson is Lund University’s representative in the Swedish Hydrological Council. He is a board member of the South Swedish GIS Association and a board member of the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University. He is also co-director of the Lund University GIS Centre together with associate professor Ali Mansourian.
Andreas Persson is a geo-information science specialist and geographer with considerable experience from both high and low income countries. GIS in environment research with climate change, hydrology and regional development together with disaster risk assessments are some parts of his research interests. This stretch from polar climate zones to tropic and the arid zones of the world. The research cover processes on a micro scale and upscaling with modeling to a continental scale. He is working in well-defined agricultural catchments as well as natural basins draining vast areas covering several countries.
Technical development of GIS modeling and algorithms is another focus area of Dr Persson. His high level competence in hydrological modeling, topographical modeling/interpolation, spatial analysis, combined with earth observation in remote sensing (both active and passive) as well as high resolution positioning is used in both research and education. Courses and workshops in Sweden as well as in low income countries have been developed and carried out for more than 15 years. Persson’s experience of dissemination of education and research results at academic, governmental and public levels have been carried out in e.g. Sweden, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, Cuba, Mozambique, USA and Canada. Dr Persson have conducted and developed several evaluation procedures for both campus courses and e-learning courses. He has also acquired a large knowledge from pedagogic courses for higher learning over the past two decades. Development of material, evaluation of courses and the teacher-student relation in distance learning is on the merit list.