People
CASA is inherently interdisciplinary. Among its staff are physicists, planners, geographers, data scientists, architects, mathematicians and computer scientists all working on the same projects.
The centre is comprised of academic staff, research staff, professional services staff, visiting academics, honorary staff and postgraduate (Doctoral and Masters) students.
Go straight to: Director | Programme Directors and Leads | Teaching Staff | Professional Services | Research Staff | Associated Staff
Director
- Jon Reades - Professor of Geographic Data Science and Head of Department for CASA
Programme Directors and Leads
- Andrew Maclachlan - Programme Director, Urban Spatial Science MSc; Associate Professor in Spatial Data Science; Visualisation and Careers and Alumni Liaison Officer
- Neave O'Clery - Director of Research; and Professor of Cities and Networks
- Duncan Smith - Programme Director, MRes Urban Spatial Science; Associate Professor, GIS and Visualisation
- Duncan Wilson - Director of Enterprise and Partnerships; Programme Director, MSc Connected Environments; Professor of Connected Environments
Teaching Staff
- Elsa Arcaute - Professor of Complexity Science
- Ollie Ballinger - Lecturer (Teaching) in Geocomputation
- Joana Barros - Lecturer (Teaching) in Urban Geography
- Michael Batty - Bartlett Professor of Planning, and Founder & Director (1995 – 2010)
- Huanfa Chen - Associate Professor in Spatial Data Science and Quantitative Methods
- Adam Dennett - Professor of Urban Analytics, and Director (2018 – 2023)
- Martin De Jode - Lecturer in Connected Environments (Hardware)
- Claire Dooley - Lecturer (Teaching) in Spatial Data Science
- Steven Gray - Professor (Teaching) in Big Data Analytics and Departmental Graduate Tutor (Taught)
- Duncan Hay - Associate Professor (Teaching) in Urban Science
- Andrew Hudson-Smith - Professor of Digital Urban Systems, and Director (2010 – 2018)
- Jens Kandt - Associate Professor in Urban Geography and Data Science
- Max Nathan - Professor of Economic Geography
- Thomas Oléron-Evans - Lecturer in Quantitative Methods; Departmental Graduate Tutor (Research)
- Valerio Signorelli - Lecturer in Connected Environments (Virtual)
- Esra Suel - Associate Professor, City Modelling
- Mark Tewdwr-Jones - Professor of Cities and Regions
- Sarah Wise - Associate Professor in Agent-Based Modelling
- Chen Zhong - Associate Professor in Urban Analytics
Professional Services
Management, HR and Finance
- Susan Francis - Department Manager
- Kavita Chopra - Centre Administrator
- Riska Beer - Finance, HR and Research Administrator
- Sandra Starosta - Finance & HR Administrator
Marketing
- Hannah McGuire - Senior Marketing Manager
- Saralyn White - Marketing Manager
- Desart Ismaili - Outreach Manager
- Van Anh Dang - Marketing Officer
Communications
- Srijana Gurung - Senior Communications Manager
- Yossie Olaleye - Communications Manager
- Mark Cortes Favis - Publications and Communications Manager
- Abi Luter - Events Officer
- Gen Williams - Communications Officer
Teaching and Learning
- CASA Teaching - casa-teaching@ucl.ac.uk
- Carol Trent - Teaching & Learning Manager
- Mohammod Hussain - Senior Teaching and Learning Administrator
- Afroditi Tampakopoulou - Teaching and Learning Administrator
Research
- Kasia Tomczyk - Research Manager
Technical support
- Simon Gosling - Connected Environments Technician
Research Staff
- Adham Enaya - Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence – Smart Cities
- Cate Heine - Research Fellow in Urban Mobility and Inequality
- Philyoung Jeong - Research Assistant
- Fulvio Lopane - Research Fellow (HARMONY)
- Leah Lovett - Research Fellow (Impact, Engagement and Outreach)
- Laura Mazzarino - Research Fellow
- Robert Manning Smith - Research Fellow in Agent-based Modelling for Ebola Risk Reduction
- Richard Milton - Senior Research Fellow (QUANT)
- Clara Peiret-Garcia - Research Fellow in Urban Analytics
- Dr Guido Pialli - Research Fellow (Economist)
- Mateo Sere - Research Assistant / Research Fellow (Computational Social Scientist)
- Hoang Shaun - Research Assistant
- Jack Shiels - Research Fellow: Improving TRUST in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Critical Building Management
- Sameera Siddiqui - Research Assistant
- Beatrice Taylor - Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence – Smart Cities
Staff associated with CASA
Boyana Buyuklieva - Research Fellow (OS funded) - UCL Department of Information Studies