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Frank Pietzsch

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Frank Pietzsch AdjLec

Lecturer Sustainable Landscape Development

Mail: fp@pisolution.de Website: External website Consultation hours: by arrangement(during the semester break only by appointment)

Focus Areas:

Software and model development/parameterisation, programming

Areas of Responsibility

Teaching assignment on the introduction and application of GISCAME

Frank Pietzsch is Managing Director of PiSolution GmbH. He has over 25 years of experience in software and technology development. His areas of expertise include the development of innovative technology concepts, consulting, and design in the field of process optimization. He is and has been involved in many national and international research projects (e.g., on multidimensional data, big data handling, guided research, and search databases).

The GISCAME software was developed in collaboration with PiSolution. GISCAME supports the simulation, visualization, and evaluation of land-use changes. The goal is to evaluate land use based on the regionally available knowledge base (statistical data, model results/expert opinions, and empirical knowledge), thus providing planners with a tool for weighing alternative courses of action. PiSolution GmbH – Software and Model Development/Parameterization Programming: https://www.pisolution.de/

 
Biography
 
 
WORK EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
Since 02/2005: Managing Director PiSolution GmbH
01/2003 – 01/2005: Self-employed
09/2001 – 12/2002: Project Manager at Brocat AG / encorus GmbH01/1998 – 08/2001 Head of Technology Development at inatec GmbH
05/1997 – 12/1997: Head of Software Development at VirBuS AG11/1995 – 04/1997 Consultant for Data Processing at Sachsen LB
04/1993 – 11/1995: Software Developer at iXOS Anwendungssoftware GmbH09/1988 – 03/1993 Dipl. Ing. f. Electrical Engineering / Electronics (HTWK Leipzig)
 
Teaching
 
 
  • Social-Ecological Systems 1: Spatial Modelling, Scenario Development and Impact Assessment I
  • Social-Ecological Systems 2: Spatial Modelling, Scenario Development and Impact Assessment II
 
Publications
 
 
Frank, S., Fürst, C., Pietzsch, F., 2015. Cross-Sectoral Resource Management: How Forest Management Alternatives Affect the Provision of Biomass and Other Ecosystem Services. Forests 6, 533-560.
Davidsson, C., Fürst, C., König, H., Ende, H.-P., Pietzsch, K., Pietzsch, F., Abiy, M., Makeschin, F. (2008): Procedures for developing an interactive tool for supporting land-use management planning – a stakeholder-based approach, Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes, Book of Abstracts, 243.