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Team

In our Citizen Science design studio in Vienna, Austria, we work to create the most advanced Citizen Science platform for providing reliable and high-quality tools in a mobile world. Coming from various backgrounds, our team not only designs and develops Citizen Science applications but also provides support and works together closely with the projects during their whole runtime.

Our core team

Team Philipp Jonathan Hummer SPOTTERON

Philipp Jonathan Hummer
Design & Project Lead

Already since his childhood, Philipp has been fascinated by nature. Being also a Citizen Scientist since then, he brings the perspective on the practice of citizen participation to the field along with his professional background and know-how of design coming from long years of experience in digital and analog arts.

Team Rainer Holzapfel SPOTTERON

Rainer Holzapfel
Development Lead

Rainer does not only speak code; he also studied Software Engineering & Internet Computing at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). Rainer has been part of the SPOTTERON team from the very start. He also contributes to the design process and platform design for system development.

Team Agnes Milewski SPOTTERON

Agnes Milewski
Media & Community

After studying languages in Vienna, Agnes worked for several NGOs. She is also a musician, songwriter, and lyricist. She is an active participant in Citizen Science apps and takes care of community administration and user support at SPOTTERON.

Team Stefan Holzapfel

Stefan Holzapfel
Development

As a graduate of the software development master's program at the FH Technikum Vienna, Stefan is enthusiastic about cutting-edge web technologies. He joined the development team to support SPOTTERON in delivering the most innovative toolset for citizen scientists.

Team Dominik Essletzbichler

Dominik Essletzbichler
Design & Communication

After attending the Masterclass for Graphic- and Communication design in Linz, AT, Dominik worked in advertising for 15 years before joining the Citizen Science App design team. With his all-round-experience, he completes the creative department of SPOTTERON.

Team Stefan Nachtnebel

Stefan Nachtnebel
Development

Stefan, better known as "Steve" enjoys building high-quality systems and services working in the background. Coming from the payment and telecommunication industry, he joined SPOTTERON to finally craft something for a good purpose.

Team Dors Ortner

Doris Ortner
Design & Communication

Doris is a graphic designer and studied philosophy in Vienna with a focus on animal ethics, environmental ethics, and aesthetics. Since she grew up very close to nature on a small farm, she very much appreciates working for projects whose goal is environmental protection. Now she supports SPOTTERON in design and social media.

Ingrid Pointecker
Project Management

Ingrid is a linguist and very passionate science fiction bookworm. In addition to language learning and her love of heavy metal music, she is passionate about a variety of sustainability issues and possible utopias - ideally for everyone. She supports the SPOTTERON team in administrative and organizational tasks.

Stefan Fiedler
Development

As a computer scientist and graduate of the Visual Computing Master's program at TU Wien, Stefan is familiar with machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, among other things. In addition, he uses his long-standing interest in computers and practical experience in software development to support the SPOTTERON development team.

Thanks also to all contributors, freelancers and test groups in our extended team - without your help, SPOTTERON would not have come that far.

You can get in contact with the SPOTTERON Team via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via phone at +43-676-598-2272

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Thursday, 28 June 2018 13:54

Article 13

Let`s fight for Citizen Science! Article 13 of the EU copyright law draft endangers all web-based CitSci projects, learn here in our Blog how to take action.

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Monday, 25 June 2018 16:11

Article 13 threatens all Citizen Science projects - let`s take action now!

Last week, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) ignored all advice by data scientists, creators and experts and voted for the Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directive. This could mean the end of web-based Citizen Science.

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Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:28

ECSA Impressions 2018

Are you curious about the European Citizen Science Conference ECSA 2018 in Geneva? We just uploaded a new article and a short video on our Citizen Science blog!

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Monday, 18 June 2018 13:45

ECSA 2018 - from the Conference about Citizen Science in Geneva, Switzerland

Every two years, a big conference about Citizen Science takes place in an European Country - this time we travelled to Geneva in Switzerland, where the ECSA 2018 was happening.

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Friday, 01 June 2018 16:20

Thomas Hübner, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik ZAMG

With our SPOTTERON App Nature's Calendar ZAMG we are always technically up-to-date. As a result we are able to offer our Citizen Scientists a tool which is also appealing to today's generation without having to worry about any technical questions.

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Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:05

Let's meet up CitSci Geneva

Starting this Sunday the European Citizen Science Conference by ECSA will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. We will be there and hope to meet you and your projects. Find out more in our Citizen Science Blog on the topic!

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Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:08

Impressions from national park Lobau

This weekend we got do some Shinrin Yoku and recharged our batteries in our very beloved viennese nature conservation area: Lobau, which is part of the national parc Danube-Auen, has been a protected area since 1978 and is our favourite playground for Citizen Science Adventures.

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Monday, 28 May 2018 19:37

Let's meet CitSci 3

The 3rd episode of our video series "Let's meet Citizen Science" is done and you can even find a small article about it on our blog.

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Monday, 28 May 2018 19:05

Let's meet Citizen Science! Episode 3 - Herpetofauna

During the "Long Night of Research" (Lange Nacht der Forschung) in Vienna Austria at the Museum of Natural History (NHM) we did not only meet with Irmgard Greilhuber from the Citizen Science project Mycodata from our last Episode of "Let's meet Citizen Science", we also got to meet Silke Schweiger and her project Herpetofauna by the NHM.

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