Anita Graser is a senior scientist and thematic coordinator in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence research group at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna.

Her research background is in geoinformatics and spatial data science with a focus on mobility applications. She is an open-source advocate, serves on the QGIS project steering committee and teaches Python for QGIS at Unigis Salzburg. She is the lead developer of MovingPandas (a Python library for analyzing movement data) and has developed tools such as the Time Manager plugin for QGIS.

She has received multiple awards, including the international OSGeo Sol Katz award for her contributions to open-source geographic information systems. Anita has published several books about QGIS, including “Learning QGIS” and “QGIS Map Design” and writes a popular spatial data science blog at https://anitagraser.com.