Alexander Jacob coordinates the research group Advanced Computing for Earth Observation, within the Institute for Earth Observation at EURAC Research. He did his undergraduate studies in Geodesy at TU Darmstadt in Germany and continued with specialization with a MSc and PhD studies in geoinformatics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an expert in earth observation and data science and is currently working on standardizing and improving access to cloud processing facilities and organization of earth observation data into data cubes. He is an active project manager for EURAC Research’s contribution to the ESA openEO Platform project and the PI of the ESA SAR2CUBE project. He has been actively involved in the original openEO H2020 project as well, coordinating and developing the back-end implementation of Eurac Research. Matthias Mohr is a software architect at the Institute for Geoinformatics in Münster and Technical Fellow for the Radiant Earth Foundation. He is primarily working for the openEO Platform project and is also a main contributor to the STAC specification and ecosystem. He is the openEO Project Steering Committee chair and a STAC Project Steering Committee member.