Meet the editors

Dr. Jorge Rocha obtained an MSc in Geographic Information Systems and an MSc in Spatial Planning in 2003 and 2013, respectively, as well as a Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science in 2012. He is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning and a member of the Modelling, Urban and Regional Planning, and Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment and Management research groups

of the Centre of Geographical Studies, all from the University of Lisbon (ULisboa). His field of expertise is geosimulation and geocomputation involving artificial neural networks, graphs theory, cellular automata, and multi-agent systems. Dr. Rocha's work focuses on urban morphology, remote sensing, land use/land cover, epidemiology, health geography, geomarketing, tourism, smart cities, and Big Data.

Dr. Linh Truong-Hong is a researcher in the Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. After completing a Marie Curie Fellowship at the same university, he obtained a BEng and MEng from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, and a Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Ireland. He was a senior researcher at University College Dublin (2013–2018) after finishing his

post-doctoral research at the Dublin Institute of Technology (2011–2013). His research interests are to develop integrated frameworks to deploy light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and photogrammetry in 3D objection reconstruction and change detection for infrastructure inspection and assessment, construction management, and a smart city. His research activity has been recognized with six peer-reviewed international awards.

Dr. Eduardo Gomes obtained a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France and University of Lisbon (ULisboa). His latest research work focused on the design of modeling and collaborative simulations employed to analyze land use and land use cover changes. He was an invited lecturer at Beijing Forest University, Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris, Future Cities Laboratory and at the Complexity

Institute, Singapore; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Dr. Gomes is the recipient of several awards, such as the Portuguese National Geography Award for the best Ph.D. thesis, Best Scientific Article Award in Human Geography, and outstanding contributions in reviewing scientific journals. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Lisbon.

Dr. Cláudia M. Viana is a geospatial data scientist and a geographer. She obtained a master's degree in Geographic Information Systems in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science in 2022. She is currently a data science junior researcher at the Centre of Geographical Studies and Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon (ULisboa), and a member of the Modelling and Spatial Planning research group. Dr. Viana was a

fellow researcher in several scientific projects related to changes in agriculture and the link between transport and land use at the Institute of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Architecture, both at ULisboa. Her research deals with the spatiotemporal changes in agricultural land and its implications on food security and health.

Dr. Inês Boavida-Portugal is an assistant professor at the University of Lisbon's Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT-ULisboa). Her recent work explores urban tourism patterns and spatial planning responses to gear cities towards future sustainable pathways. To explore these phenomena, Dr. Boavida-Portugal uses a mixed-method approach including geographical information systems and information and communication technologies. She

has been particularly interested in the application of such methodologies to study how behavioral changes at the micro level (governance triangle: civil society, governments, markets) can produce critical changes at the macro level in urban systems, specifically focusing on tourism dynamics as a disruptive phenomenon.

Dr. Anh Thu Phan is a lecturer at Vietnam National University (VNU), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. She finished her undergraduate education as a salutatorian and was in the top 10 students of her faculty at VNU. After that, she spent two years working at VNU as an assistant lecturer. She obtained an MSc from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, in 2014 where she had a full academic scholarship. She obtained a Ph.D. from the same

university in 2017. Since then, she has been a full-time lecturer at the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. Her research focuses on the application of low-cost laser scanners and closed-range photogrammetry.
