Hi there 👋 😊 my name is Stef and I am an Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science at the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and Research Theme Lead for Cultural Informatics at the Institute for Digital Culture of the University of Leicester. I am the Chair of the Geographic Information Science Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. I am also part of the steering committee of GIScience Research UK (GISRUK), and I was the chair of the GISRUK 2018 conference. I am a member of the Commission on Location Based Services of the International Cartographic Association.

Before joining the University of Leicester in 2015, I was a Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford (2013-2015) and a Junior Research Fellow at the Wolfson College of the University of Oxford (2014-2015), and thereafter, a Research Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford (2015-2021). I was awarded a PhD from the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich in 2013 and a BSc and a MSc in computer science from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine.