Maurizio Gibin

 
With a PhD in Geography, 2004, University of Trieste, he moved to the UK in March 2006 to work at the Department of Geography, CASA on a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and National Health Service (Southwark Primary Care Trust) that is developing geodemographic and social marketing systems to precisely target health campaigns in a cost effective way. This has led him to develop an online Health Atlas of Southwark (http://www.spatial-literacy.org/health/), as well as the resource that showcases a full range of CASA projects alongside health data.

Dr. Gibin is also part of the team that developed the world version of the national trust names. Both the projects are focusing on investigating the distribution of surnames and allow users to trace the geography of their family names.In September 2008, Dr. Gibin joined Birkbeck, University of London as a Lecturer in Geographic Information Science, having the opportunity to work in two different research environments, enjoy teaching and strengthening the research links between CASA – the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London (UCL) – and Birkbeck College.

Maurizio Gibin’s research interests are spatial analysis, geovisualisation, geographic data analysis of socio-economic and population data, health geography, geodemographics, geoweb 2.0 applications to deploy geographic information, web cartography and analytical design in thematic mapping.

Publications (short list):

  • HUDSON-SMITH A., CROOKS A., GIBIN M., MILTON R., BATTY M. “Neogeography and Web 2.0: Concepts, Tools and Applications”, Journal of Location Based Services, Volume 3, Issue 2, pages 118 – 145, June 2009.
  • PETERSEN, J., ATKINSON, P., PETRIE, S., GIBIN, M., LONGLEY, P.A. “Teenage pregnancy – new tools to support local health campaigns”, Health and Place, 15(1), p 300-7, March 2009.
  • GIBIN M., SINGLETON, A.D., MILTON, R., MATEOS, P., LONGLEY, P.A. “Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation of London using the Google Maps API” in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, vol.1 number 2, July 2008.
  • GIBIN M., MATEOS P., ATKINSON P., PETERSEN J. Google maps mash-ups for local public health service planning in Planning Support Systems: best practices and new methods, Stillwell J., Geertman S. eds, Springer, 2009
  • GIBIN M., SINGLETON A.D., MILTON R., MATEOS P., LONGLEY P.A. “Collaborative Mapping of London Using Google Maps: The LondonProfiler”. CASA Working Papers n. 132, March 2008.
  • HUDSON-SMITH A., MILTON R., BATTY M., GIBIN M., LONGLEY P., SINGLETON A. “Public Domain GIS, Mapping & Imaging using Web-based Services”, CASA Working Papers n. 120, September 2007.