Johannes Mast wins Bernd Rendel Prize

Johannes Mast wins Bernd Rendel Prize

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PhD thesis | Urban

July 29, 2026

Johannes Mast is awarded the 2026 Bernd Rendel Prize for Geosciences by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for outstanding research as part of his dissertation.

Johannes’s highly interdisciplinary work bridges the Geosciences, Linguistics, Data Science, and Urban Geography. By combining satellite earth observation with social media data analysis, his research enables a more comprehensive view on global urban transformation and human-environment interactions.

His research was supervised by Prof. Hannes Taubenböck of the DLR and our EORC (Uni Wuerzburg), Prof. Carolin Biewer of the Chair of English Linguistics and Prof. Andreas Hotho of the Data Science Chair, all members of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) at the University of Würzburg.

As one of two young researchers honored this year, he will receive at the annual conference of the German Geological Society (DGGV) in Bochum, taking place from September 20–24, 2026

Congratulations, Johannes. Well deserved.

For more information, see the german press release by DFG here: https://news.dfg.de/a/a.aspx?AysD20iqHlte2rT9o68wySg0hQ2

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