Dickson Mbeya

Dickson Mbeya is the founder of the R for GIS and Remote Sensing Mentorship Program. He is an award-winning cartographer and an experienced geospatial professional with more than a decade of experience in utilizing geospatial technologies to derive information products.

He currently works as Cartography Technician with the Malawi University of Science and Technology. He has have 8 years experience teaching GIS and Remote Sensing in a higher learning institution. Dickson is an expert in utilizing industry standard commercial and open source GIS, mapping and satellite image processing software and programming languages.

Education

Malawi University of Science and Technology, Malawi | MSc in Biodiversity Informatics | 2024

University of Malawi | BSc in Earth Sciences | 2015

Experience

Malawi University of Science and Teachnology | Project Manager and Spatial Assessment Lead | January 2023 - present

Malawi University of Science and Technology | Cartography Technician | Sept 2017 - present