Reports on the Bernd Rendel Prize won by Johannes Mast

Reports on the Bernd Rendel Prize won by Johannes Mast

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August 4, 2026

We are delighted that Johannes Mast has been awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his original and promising geoscientific research carried out prior to his PhD. We had already reported on this: https://remote-sensing.org/johannes-mast-wins-bernd-rendel-prize/

Now, our university and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have also reported on it. Please read the articles here:

 

Here is an overview of his research papers leading to the PhD of Johannes:

  • Mast, Johannes, Marta Sapena, Henri Debray, Justice Nana Inkoom, Richard Lemoine Rodríguez, Christian Geiß, und Hannes Taubenböck. 2025. „The Digital Urban Frontier: Disparities in Social Media Activity between Consolidated and Newly Urbanized Areas in Africa”. Applied Geography 181 (August):103687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103687.  
  • Mast, Johannes, Christian Geiß, und Hannes Taubenböck. 2025. „Spatial delineations of cities based on web content and built-up age – a case study on North African growth poles from 2010 to 2020″. Konferenzartikel präsentiert  auf der 17th International Conference on Joint Urban Remote Sensing (JURSE 2025), Tunis.
  • Mast, Johannes, Marta Sapena, Martin Mühlbauer, Carolin Biewer, und Hannes Taubenböck. 2024. „The Migrant Perspective: Measuring Migrants’ Movements and Interests Using Geolocated Tweets”. Population, Space and Place 30 (2): e2732. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2732.  
  • Mast, Johannes, Dominik Heps, und Marta Sapena. 2026. „Using geolocated social media data for understanding the relationships between language, topic and mobility: A case study on a local use of English in Nigeria.”. In: Geolingual Studies on Urban Space: Global Identities and Local Connectedness, in New Directions in World Englishes Research. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Mast, Johannes, Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez, Vanessa Rittlinger, Martin Mühlbauer, Carolin Biewer, Christian Geiß, und Hannes Taubenböck. 2025. „Geospatiality: The Effect of Topics on the Presence of Geolocation in English Text Data”. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2025.2460051.  
  • Mast, Johannes, Richard Lemoine-Rodriguez, Vanessa Rittlinger, Christian Geiß, und Hannes Taubenböck. 2025. „Comparing Geospatiality of Topics between Geotag- and Geoparsing-based Geolocations”. In 3rd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop, GeoExT 2025, herausgegeben von C CEUR-WS.org, Bd. 3969. CEUR Workshop Proceedings”‘. CEUR-WS. https://elib.dlr.de/214374/.

 

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