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Personal Details

    Nationality: Netherlands.

    Languages: English and Portuguese (fluent, written, spoken); Spanish (working knowledge, written, spoken); French (basic knowledge).

    Interests: My research interests are in the areas of geographic knowledge representation and reasoning, spatio-temporal data modelling and usability. I am currently working on the development of a multi-tier ontological framework for supporting inductive reasoning about places which are constituted by connections and movements of human trajectories and their dynamic footprints on a variety of scales, ranging from local and private processes to public, economic, trans-national and systemic ones.

    For the past ten years I have been working on policy, research and educational issues at European and national levels, aiming to address the needs in spatial planning and environmental management. Working in international funded research projects has provided me with the experience of operating in multidisciplinary teams from government, industry, and international organisations. In addition, one of my most rewarding experiences has been in teaching students from different cultural backgrounds and nationalities.

Background

    Currently in sabbatical as invited Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

    Associated Professor since 1999 at the Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands.

    Editorial roles: International Journal of GIScience (Editor Europe), editorial board member of Data Science Journal – A Journal of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science, Cartographie Animée de la Revue Internationale de Géomatique, and Geography Compass Journal.

    Manuscript reviewer for Computers and Geosciences Journal, Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS Journal), International Journal of Transactions in GIS, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion, The Cartographic Journal (The British Cartographic Society), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, International Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, PE&RS, Computers Environment and Urban Systems.

    Member of the Research Management Committee of the GEOIDE Network, which is funded by the Networks of Centres of Excellence Programme (NCE) in Canada.

    Active member of the AGILE – Association of the Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe as scientific secretary.

    Scientific expert of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the Community (INSPIRE), Working Group on Impact Analysis, European Commission Directorate-General of Environment.

    Teaching experience in spatio-temporal modelling and visualisation, geostatistics, quantitative and computing methods, and cartography.

    Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, Geography Department

    M.Sc., International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, The Netherlands.

Current Research Projects

  1. GeoPKDD Project - Geographic Privacy Aware Discovery and Delivery (FP6 IST-STREP Funding, 2005-2008)

    2. Research Fields: Space-time reasoning and representation.
    Consortium: Institute of Sciences and Technology (Italy), University of Pisa, University of Limburg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Sabanci University, and WIND Telecommunications SpA.
    Role and Responsibilities: Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the Demonstration Phase.

  2. People in Motion:Planning human mobility on a landscape (Bsik-RGI Funding, 2006-2008)

    3. Research Fields: Spatial planning and space-time knowledge representation.
    Consortium: Laval University, University of Calgary, and Institute of Sciences and Technology – KDDLAB (Italy).
    Role and Responsibilities: Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator.

  3. DynCoopNet Project – Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age (Funding: European Science Foundation, European Collaborative Research Scheme Programme (EUROCORES), The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading (TECT), 2007 -2009)

    4. Research Fields: Heritage cartography and spatio-temporal data modelling.
    Consortium: Idaho State University, University of Oklahoma, The Australian National University Canberra, Umeä University, University of Hyderabad Gachibowli (India), Universidade do Porto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, National Research Council Spain.
    Role and Responsibilities: Principal Investigator.

List of Relevant Publications

  1. Frabrikant, S. and Wachowicz, M. (2007). The European Information Society: Leading the way with geo-information. Lecture Notes in Geo-Information and Cartography, Springer-Verlag.
  2. Wachowicz, M. Ligtenberg, A., Renso, C. and Gurses, S. (2007). Characterising mobile applications through a privacy-aware geographic knowledge discovery process. In: Mobility, privacy, and geography: a knowledge discovery perspective. F. Giannoni and D. Pedreski (eds). Springer-Verlag. (in press).
  3. Wachowicz, M. Ying, X. and Ligtenberg,A. (2005).   Using Multi-Agent Systems for GKD Process Tracking and Steering: The Land Use Change Explorer. In: Exploring Geovisualization J. Dykes, A. MacEachren and M.-J. Kraak (eds.), Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 223-242.
  4. Ligtenberg, A., Wachowicz, M. Bregt, A., Beulens, A. and Kettenis, D.L. (2004). A design and application of a multi-agent system for simulation of multi-actor spatial planning. Journal of Environment Management, 72 (2004), pp.43-55.
  5. Wachowicz M. (1999). Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS. Taylor and Francis.

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