My Resume in brief (full CV available on request):

• Professor of Physical Geography with emphasis on Geohazards, Land Degradation, Earth Observation & Geo-computation (since 2001).
• Head of Department Physical Geography (2015-2021).
• Co-chair of Special Interest Group Imaging (SIG-I) of focus area Applied Data Science (ADS).
• Director of Research of the Physical Geography Research Institute (2001-2015).
• Chairman of the ICG Research School: Inter University Centre for Geoecological Research (2001-2010).
• Visiting Scientist (2011) University of Tasmania, Australia: Developing a flexible method for landslide displacement and surface deformation mapping using multi-temporal UAV photography.
• Principal Investigator of various European Airborne Remote Sensing Experiments HyMap2008, HyEurope2003, HySense2000, DAISEX98.
• International lecturer of short courses for NUFFIC, NWO and UU in France, Germany, Kenya, Indonesia, Brazil, Suriname.
• Visiting Scientist (1995-1996) at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena CA, using imaging spectroscopy to assess damage to the Pine trees due to volcanic activity (massive CO2 releases) in Mammoth Mountain CA.

Previous positions:

• Professor in Geo-Informatics & Remote Sensing (1997-2001), Wageningen University, NL.
• Assistant Professor / Lecturer Remote Sensing & GIS at Utrecht University (1988-1997).
• Advisor at PBI (Consultancy for Industrial Waste) for soil and water pollution (1987-1988).

Editorial boards (current or in the past):

• CATENA (Elsevier).
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (Elsevier). 
• Hydrological Processes.
• Journal of Mountain Science (Springer).
• The Open Remote Sensing Journal (Bentham).
• CERNE-REVISTA (UFLA Brasil).
• Springer Bookseries on Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing (RDIP).
• Geografie, in Dutch, (KNAG).

Special issue editor:

• Sensing Technqiues for soil characterization amd monitoring. European Journal of Soil Science 65 (2014).
• Object Based Image Analysis. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 15 (2012) Elsevier.
• Spatial dynamic modelling. International Journal of Geoinformation Science 21 (2007) Taylor & Francis.

Prizes / Awards:

• Visiting fellowship of University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia (2010).
• NWO Talent Stipend for visiting NASA-JPL (1995).
• Best Poster Prizes: EARSeL-conferences 2004, 1999. GISDECO-conferences 1996, 1994.
• Teacher of the Year at Geosciences (1993).

Books:

• Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Including the Spatial Domain, S.M. de Jong & F.D. van de Meer F.D. (Eds.), 2004, Bookseries on Remote Sensing Digital Image Processing Vol.5. Springer, Dordrecht. ISBN: 1-4020-2559-9, 359 pp.
• Imaging Spectrometry: Basic Principles and Prospective Applications, F.D. van der Meer & S.M. de Jong (Eds.), 2002, Bookseries on Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Vol.4, ISBN: 1-4020-0194-0. Springer, Dordrecht. 403 pp.

Education:

• PhD-Research (1990–1994): Developing the computer simulation model SEMMED for regional soil erosion hazard in Mediterranean areas (Ardèche Province, France). Link airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing images to SEMMED. Utrecht University.
• MSc in Physical Geography (1987): Application of Geographical Information Systems for rural land evaluation and land use planning using the UN-FAO method. Utrecht University.
• Majors at Wageningen University in Soil Physics, Soil Chemistry and Remote Sensing (1984-1987). And a thesis on: Modelling the earth surface energy balance of the playas in Tunisia including a 3 months field campaign in Central Tunisia.
• College Lyceum Augustinianum 1981 (Atheneum-B), Eindhoven, NL.

Measuring snow spectra using an ASD-FieldSpec near Mammoth Mountain CA.