Thorsten Behrens is based in the University of Tübingen .Dr. rer. nat, Dipl.-Ing. agr. He has a PhD in soil science, geographic information systems and physical geography in 2003. After working at the institute of Soil Science and Soil Conservation and the Institute of Biometrics and Populationgenetics at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Physical Geography and Soil Science at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena and is now a scientific assistant at the Institute of Geography at Eberhardt-Karls-University in Tuebingen. He is an active member of commission 1.5 of the IUSS "Pedometrics" and the International Working Group on Digital Soil Mapping (WG-DSM) of the IUSS. His main research focuses on the application of mathematical and statistical techniques, i.e. data mining and machine learning in soil attribute and soil class prediction as well as soil-hydrology. Further important research topics comprise pedodiversity and landscape ecology. Thorsten Behrens was the Chairman of the organizing committee of Pedometrics 2007, held in Tübingen, Germany. As Pedometrics and Digital Soil Mapping are his main research fields since many years, he is willing to further contribute to the Pedometrics community and stand for Chair of the Commission.