[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoAmbassador – Professor Luciene Stamato Delazari

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the GeoForAll community, it is my great pleasure to honour  Prof. Luciene Stamato Delazari  from the Universidade Federal do Paraná  in Brazil as our GeoAmbassador. Luciene  is a full professor in Cartography and GIS at the Federal University of Parana.  She graduated in Cartographic Engineering in 1993 and obtained herMaster degree in Geodetic Science (1996) and PhD in Engineering (2004). In1997 she joined the Department of Geomatic in undergraduate and graduate level. Since 2015 , Luciene is  the Head of Geodetic Science Program at the Federal University of Parana. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of Geodetic Sciences. Her research interests and publications are in cartographic visualization, interface design for cartographic products,
automated cartographic design, and in the last few years, Indoor Mapping.

 In 2012, Luciene along with her colleagues helped to establish the Open Source Laboratory for the South America at the Federal University of Parana. Since 2008 , Luciene has a fellowship of  Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico– CNPq (Brazilian Funding Agency). Over the years Luciene has taught many courses in Cartography and GIS, both at undergraduate and graduate level. In all lectures she uses open software and open data. Luciene gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at universities and conferences in many cities around Brazil and abroad. She has been supervisor of about 30 MSc and PhD students. Luciene is leading Cartography and GIS research at Geodetic Science Program and published over 30 journal papers in this field. In the ICC 2009 and 2011 her PhD students received the ICA Travel Award. In ICC 2015, together with other colleagues from Brazil, Luciene was part of the Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee. Since 2014 she has a research project collaboration with Massey University (New Zealand) (grant from CNPq) in the field of Ontologies and Semantics.

>From July 2013 to July 2014 , Luciene did a post-doctoral period at University of Nottingham and I had the great opportunity to work with Luciene on various  joint research and  publications in Schematic maps for indoor environments.

Geo for All is a worldwide movement that provides immediate benefit to the world. We aim to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. 

We are proud to honour  Luciene as our GeoAmbassador and we are extremely grateful for her contributions to GeoForAll.

Best wishes,

Suchith 




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