Edzer Pebesma leads the spatiotemporal modelling lab at the Institute for Geoinformatics of the University of Münster. He is author of the book “Spatial Data Science: With applications in R” which appeared in May this year in print and is entirely available online on https://r-spatial.org/book/. Edzer is one of the initiators of openEO, a fresh approach to working with Earth observation data cubes in the cloud, and is an active contributor to the R-spatial community. Following this presentation, he was asked a few questions by OEMC’s Working Package 8 OpenGeoHub’s communication experts.