Bio
Anna is a Turing Research Fellow affiliated with the Science for Cities and Regions Programme. In this role, she aims to investigate and generate tools for promoting environmental sustainability and active modes of transport, in collaboration with government offices and local councils.
She joined the Institute in 2021 as a Post Doc Research Associate within the Urban Analytics Programme, working on the early phase of the national scaling-up of a regional pandemic model, what then became SPC (Synthetic Population Catalyst). Later she joined a pilot project in partnership with the Geospatial Commission on land use characterisation to support sustainable urban development, where she led the research on computing potential accessibility by different means of transport.
Her background is Physics of the Atmosphere and Geomatics, with and MSc and PhD both from Bologna University in Italy. Anna holds a multi-year experience in the Middle East region, where she was involved in activities ranging from water resources and environment management in humanitarian aid projects, to remote sensing and desertification studies in arid and semiarid areas.
Research interests
Anna’s interest is in using geospatial data to tackle inequalities and to promote environmental sustainability.
She is particularly keen in generating code for reproducible and open science, following the Turing Way principles.
