Dr Jacobus Van Rooyen CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: GIS Specialist Employer: Parsons Brinckerhoff Memo: Cobus is a GIS Specialist working for the engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. He provides spatial analysis and mapping support for the London 2012 Olympics and is mainly involved with venue traffic management and the Olympic Route Network. Projects he has been involved in include the National Traffic Control Centre (NTCC) project for the Highways Agency and the Telemetry Replacement and Integration (TeRI) project for Severn Trent Water. Cobus has a BTech degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (formerly Cape Technikon) and a MSc in Geographical Information Science from Birkbeck, University of London. He is currently a PhD researcher at Birkbeck and his research interests include the study of urban complexity through the application of geosimulation. As a former Integrated Development Planning officer for the local council in Cape Town, Cobus is focussing on the city of Cape Town as a case study area for his research. Further interests include a study of the emergence and evolution of global cities and studying the dynamics of ancient cities and civilisations. He is also a member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences and a chartered scientist with the UK Science Council.