Minds Behind Maps is the Podcast I wanted to listen to but couldn't find.

Me playing guitar in the mountains

Hosted & Produced by Maxime Lenormand

Along side running the Minds Behind Maps podcast I work as geospatial data scientist in a small start-up in the Netherlands. However as my name might imply, I'm French, and consider myself a citizen of the world more than attached to any specific country.

I studied aerospace mechanical engineering, for the longest time never wanting to have anything to do with software. Yet a few years later, I'm deep into the world of Earth Observation, with experience on multiple applications with different satellite imagery technologies. I've worked on monitoring deforestation, then worked at Iceye - who built and operates the world's largest radar imagery constellation - building tools for worldwide timely flood monitoring, to now working with optical imagery for vegetation monitoring.

I believe having skin in the game & real hands on experience in the geospatial is an important part of the conversations I have with guests.

Editing & Original soundtrack by Peter Xiong

I’m a cellist, composer, audio editor, and video producer based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. As a Berklee College of Music graduate of 2019, I got to do tons of amazing things like Playing for Yoko Shimomura, Jacob Collier, Sir Patrick Doyle, Howard Shore, and more all while studying Film and Game music. Today, I am writing music and editing for podcasts like Minds Behind Maps, America’s National Parks, Not Your Drinking Buddy, and more. The work that I’ve created and edited content for in the past few years ranges from topics like AI, robotics, serious games, choral music, national parks, RVs, and now, Earth Observation.