Alexander Jacob (Member, IEEE) received the Licentiate degree in geoinformatics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2014. He coordinates the research group Advanced Computing for Earth Observation, Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano, Italy, with the objective to foster EO data science by actively contributing to research in regional and international projects, fully capitalizing on Earth observation (EO) data in the space, time, and feature domains. He is an experienced researcher and a software developer in the field of EO (more than ten years of experience). He is responsible for the scientific data management, including the organization of multidimensional raster data and coordination of algorithm development in operational and research processing chains. He is currently an active project manager for, e.g., Eurac Research’s contribution to the Interreg Alpine Space Alpine Drought Observatory project, the ESA openEO platform project, and the ESA SEOM SInCohMap project as well as several internal development projects.