Profile

I joined Loughborough University as a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design in July 2020, having completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Marie Curie Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.

I am an architect by training and a graduate of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Before my doctoral studies, I worked for several architectural firms in the USA specialising in developing concepts for large-scale urban projects. While working on my doctorate, I was invited to be a guest researcher to the Spatial Cognition Research Centre of Computer Science and Social Research Institute at Freiburg University. As a research assistant, I have also participated in several projects of the European Union on Architectural Cultural Heritage.

Professional affiliations

  • Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
  • Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN)
  • Association for the promotion of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
  • Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization (CogVis), International Cartographic Association (ICA)

Awards

  • The British Academy Endorsement. Promising Talent in Social Sciences, Anthropology and Geography
  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence Certificate. Horizon 2020 European Commission. The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
  • The Raphael Reiffer Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis. Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning IIT

External activities

  • Member of Editorial Advisory Board Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Reviewer in Professional Journals: Landscape and Urban Planning; Architectural Science Review (ASR); Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS); Journal of Urban Affairs; Journal of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science; International Journal of Geographical Information Science; ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information; Journal of Scientific Research and Essays (SRE); Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

  • University College London (UCL)
  • ETH Zurich, Chair of Cognitive Science
  • Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT)
  • University of Life Sciences in Lublin
  • Beketov National University of Urban Economy, Ukraine
  • Centre for Spatial Perception and Concrete Experience (SPaCE) University of Southern California
  • Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research (SPAR) Lab UC Santa Barbara