Werner Kuhn holds the Jack and Laura Dangermond Endowed Chair for Geographic Information Science and is a professor in the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara. His research and teaching are aimed at enabling transdisciplinary research through spatial information and computing. Before joining UC Santa Barbara in 2013, Werner was a professor of geoinformatics at the University of Münster, Germany, where he led MUSIL, an interdisciplinary semantic interoperability research lab (www.uni-muenster.de/Geoinformatics/en/musil/).