Bio
Alison Heppenstall is a Professor of Geocomputation at the University of Glasgow where she works across the Urban Big Data Centre and the Public Health Unit co-directing the Systems Science programme. She previously held an ESRC-Turing Fellowship and was awarded the International Society of Computational Economics prize for “outstanding contribution in computational social simulation” from the Italian Research Council in 2022. She currently leads the Smart Cities theme on the Artificial intelligence for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Hub.