Benjamin Herfort is researcher at HeiGIT and Heidelberg University. Benjamin leads the Technical Innovation Group at HeiGIT where he is helping to develop open source tools and methods that incorporate geographic information systems for disaster management, humanitarian aid and climate action.

In his PhD he has investigated questions of representation and data quality in OpenStreetMap. In his research and work he is furthermore dealing with the temporal evolution of OpenStreetMap data, MapSwipe and information from social media.