Editorial board

EDITORS:

Dr Mike Smith , Editor-in-Chief
Editor: JoM Science
Ulster University, UK
BSc (Wales), MSc (UBC), PhD (Sheffield)
Research interests in palaeo-glaciology, geomorphometry and spectroscopy

Professor Nigel Walford, Editor: JoM Social Science
Professor of Applied GIS, Kingston University, UK
BA (Sussex), PhD (London)
Research interests include contemporary and historical applications of GIS relating to population dynamics, people-environment interaction and land use change in rural and urban areas

SCIENCE:

Dr Gina Cavan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Research interests include the application of GIS to assess urban ecosystem services, climate change risk, vulnerability and adaptation across the UK, Europe and Africa

Dr Chi-Wen Chen, National Taiwan University
BSc (NTU), MSc (NTU), PhD (The University of Tokyo)
Research interests include slope disasters, engineering geology, and geospatial information analysis

Dr Klaus Gessner, Geological Survey of Western Australia
Dipl. Geol. (Frankfurt), PhD (Mainz)
Research insterests include tectonics, Precambrian geology, and mineral and energy resources

Dr. M. Scott Harris, P.G., College of Charleston, USA
BS (William and Mary), MS (University of Virginia), Ph.D. (University of Delaware)
Research interests include marine geology, coastal plain and continental shelf evolution, and geoarchaeology.

PD Dr Tobias Heckmann, Senior Lecturer, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Dipl. Geogr. (Heidelberg), Germany
PhD (Eichstaett), PD (Eichstaett)
Research interests include geomorphological systems analysis in alpine areas (sediment budgets, natural hazards, environmental change)

Dr Martin Margold, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
MSc (Charles University), PhD (Stockholm University)
Research interests include glacial geomorphology, paleo-glaciology, quantitative geochronology, and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

Prof. Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
BSc (Anglia), PhD (Ulster)
Research interests include Quaternary climate and environmental change, geomorphology and sedimentary systems

Dr Jan-Christoph Otto, University of Salzburg, Austria
Dipl. Geogr. (Bonn), PhD (Bonn)
Research interests include alpine geomorphology, sediment budgets, human impact on natural systems, environmental change and geomorphological mapping

Dr Paolo Paron, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands
MSc (Roma Tre), PhD (G. D'Annunzio)
Research interests in GIS / Remote Sensing, Physical Geography, River Geomorphology and Groundwater

Dr Tommaso Piacentini, Department of Engineering and Geology, University "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti Pescara, Italy
BSc (Rome La Sapienza), PhD (Roma Tre)
Research interests include tectonic geomorphology, landslides, geomorphological hazards, geomorphological mapping

Dr Monica Pondrelli, Università d'Annunzio, Italy

Prof. Dr Claudio Riccomini, University of São Paulo, Brazil
BSc (São Paulo), MSc (INPE), PhD (São Paulo)
Research interests include tectonics (Neotectonics), basin analysis and geological mapping

Professor Uwe Ring, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dipl. Geol. (Darmstadt), PhD (Tübingen)
Research interests include the formation and destruction of mountain belts using geologic/tectonic mapping, structural geology, metamorphic petrology and geochronology.

SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Prof. Haosheng Huang, Ghent University, Belgium
BSc/MSc (SCNU), PhD (TU Wien)
Research interests include location-based services, navigation systems, spatial cognition, urban analytics, mobility, and GeoAI 

Dr Paul Holloway, University College Cork, Ireland
BSc (University of Nottingham), MSc (University of Nottingham), PhD (University of Texas at Austin)
Research interests include movement science, geocomputation, geoprivacy and applications of GIS to a variety of topics

Dr Izabela Karsznia, University of Warsaw, Poland
Research interests  include automation of cartographic generalization with the use of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Graph Theory, map design and visualization, application of maps and spatial analysis in other disciplines (e.g. UAV studies; historical hydrography; land use changes).

Dr Marynia Kolak, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
MS, MFA, PhD
Research interests include spatial epidemiology, spatial econometrics, and the application of GIS to assess the influence of place on health and the production of social, spatial, and racial inequalities on driving health disparities

Dr Bieke Cattoor, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands

Juliane Cron, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Chandra Jayasuriya, Cartographer, School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia

Mr Andrew Lynch, Cartographer

Prof. Dr Menno-Jan Kraak, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, the Netherlands
BSc & MSc (Utrecht University), PhD (Delft University of Technology)

Dr Chris Orton, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK

Prof. Makram Murad-al-shaikh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; ESRI, Inc.- Educational Services, USA
Research interests include GIS and cartography

Dr. Jirí Pánek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

Dr Vit Paszto, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

Dr Thomas Pingel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Nick Scarle, Cartographic Unit, Manchester University, UK

Mike Shand, GIS Cartographer, University of Glasgow, UK

Mike Siegel, Cartographer, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, USA

Dr Luis M. Tanarro, Department of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain


SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR:

Tim Prestby, Pennsylvania State University, USA


Updated 29 April 2024