Dr. Euro Beinat has been selected for the new endowed chair in 'Geoinformatics - Location Based Services' at Salzburg University. Starting from Jan 1, Prof. Beinat will be assigned to the Centre for Geoinformatics as well as to the Department of Geography and Geology and will offer classes and thesis supervision in LBS. The June 2008 summer school in LBS will be one of next year's highlights.
Prof. Beinat's research is focused on the following topics:
- Realtime location awareness
- Development of location based systems for highly dynamic and critical environments, and
- A social science perspective on dynamic cities.
Current research initiatives are jointly implemented together with the SENSEable City Lab at MIT Boston and the SPINlab at VU Amsterdam.
Source: GIScience Blog
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