17 October | 10:00 - 12:00
We are pleased to announce the visit of Prof. Jeff Hamerlink, who has expressed interest in exploring collaboration with ELI and other UCLouvain researchers. His areas of expertise include GIS-based planning support systems, scenario planning, multifunctional rural landscapes, smart rural places, and local-scale digital twins.
As places are limited, we kindly ask interested participants to register via the following link.
Jeff Hamerlinck is an environmental geographer, community planner and information scientist working at the intersection of information and communication technologies and multifunctional rural landscapes, applying scenario planning-enabled geodesign solutions to climate risk and local digital twin design for smart rural places.
Jeff is the Associate Director of the University of Wyoming’s School of Computing (UW/SoC), where he also leads the School’s Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center and UW’s new Center for Rural Community Resilience and Innovation.
He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) with a GIS Professional (GISP) designation from the GIS Certification Institute.
Jeff is the immediate past president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information and currently serves on the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Council.
In 2025, he began a three-year term on the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s (Cambridge, MA) Consortium for Scenario Planning’s advisory board.