Visit of Prof. Benito Oterino and Dr. Gaspar from the Polytecnic University of Madrid at TUM

From left to right: Prof. Dr. Holger Magel, Prof. Dr. Belén Benito Oterino, Dr. Jorge M. Gaspar, Anne Ritzinger and Jorge Espinoza

Following the visit to the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in December 2008, Jorge Espinoza and Anne Ritzinger delivered lectures on Land Management. This marked the beginning of partnership between the Chair of Land Management in particular or TUM in general and the Polytechnic University. Read more!

Upon this background, Prof. Dr. Belen Benito Oterino and Dr. Jorge M. Gasper paid a return visit as a way to consolidate the partnership and delivered lectures on Environmental Risk Management with emphasis on the application of GIS. It was all arranged under the auspices of the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Program and the Erasmus Partnership in the study course Geodesy and Geoinformation.
During the visit, a meeting was convened between the visiting lecturers and Prof. Dr. Wunderlich from the Chair of Geodesy, Prof. Dr. Thuro from the Chair of Engineering Geology, Dr. Krisp from the Chair of Cartography, and Mr. Ertac MSc, from the Chair of Geoinformation Systems. This was meant to give them an overview of the scientific focus in an interdisciplinary context.