Bio
- Sept 2021-present: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social and Cultural Informatics, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
- 2016–2021: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Geographic Data Science, Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London
- 2014–2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2013–2014: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- 2009–2013: PhD at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland
- 2007–2009: Software developer at 3dCadSoft, Dublin, Ireland
- 2006–2007: Software developer at Wavegroup s.r.l., Turin, Italy
- 2003–2006: MSc in Virtual Reality and Multimedia, University of Turin, Italy
- 2000–2003: BSc in Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy
- I am from Avigliana, near Turin, in Italy
Fellowships
- Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (2017–)
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (2019–)
Awards
- Best paper award at AGILE 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
- Best presentation award at W2GIS 2012, Tokyo, Japan
- GISRUK Conference Series
Refereeing
- Nature Communications
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
- Transactions in GIS
- Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS)
- Spatial Cognition & Computation
- GeoInformatica
- International Journal of Digital Earth
- Knowledge and Information Systems
- Conference On Spatial Information Theory (COSIT)
- International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER
- AutoCarto (endorsed by the International Cartographic Association)
- MapInteract, ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Interacting with Spatial Information
- International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS (SeCoGIS 2014)
- Social Media World Sensors (SIDEWAYS), International Conference on HyperText and Social Media (HT)
- E.U. COST Action IC1203, European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing (ENERGIC)
- WWW/Internet International Conference (ICWI)
- International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST)