Ali Mansourian

Ali Mansourian

Ali Mansourian is a Professor of Geomatics at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He serves as the Director of the Lund University GIS Centre and the coordinator of the “GIS & RS Master Program”. He is and extended council member of International Society of Digital Earth (ISDE), an active member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Academic Network, and a former council member of the European Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE).

Prof. Mansourian has pioneered research in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI, whcih is an innovative field at the intersection of GIScience and Artificial Intelligence), Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA).  His extensive research portfolio also includes the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in diverse areas such as epidemiology and public health, disaster risk management, land-use planning, climate change, environmental management, and sustainability.

Throughout his career, Prof. Mansourian has demonstrated exceptional leadership in large-scale international and national research initiatives and capacity-building projects. His extensive experience spans coordinating multidisciplinary teams, evaluating proposals for major European research grant programs, chairing scientific committees for international conferences and workshops, supervising PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, serving as an invited evaluator for PhD theses, and publishing over 200 scientific works comprising journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, and technical reports.

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