Biography

Prof Muki Haklay (Department of Geography, UCL) is a Professor of Geographical Information Science (GISc). He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research, and he is the co-director of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group and a co-founder and director of the social enterprise Mapping for Change.

His research interest includes participatory mapping and GIS, Citizen Science, Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and usability aspects of GIS, and public access to environmental information.

Prof Haklay applied and secured funding for over 40 research projects from a range of funders, totalling c. £14,000,000. His research has been funded by EU research and development funding (including the European Research Council), national research funding bodies (e.g UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council – EPSRC, Economic and Social Research Council – ESRC, and Medical Research Council – MRC), charities (e.g. Royal Geographical Society, Forest People Programme, Forests Monitor, London Sustainability Exchange and others), local and national government.

Prof Haklay has extensive experience in trans-disciplinary research throughout his career, in the EPSRC grant ‘Bridging the Gaps across Sustainable Urban Spaces’ (2008-2011), FP7 project ‘Citizen Cyberlab’ (2012-2015); Horizon 2020 'Doing It Together Science' (2016-2019), ActEarly (2019-2024), or his ERC Advanced Grant 'Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis and Visualisation" (2016-2021). Over the years he worked with, Urban designers, Physicists, Anthropologists, Medical and Veterinary researchers, Development experts, Structural Engineers and Ornithologists – among others.