Professor Allan Brimicombe CGeog

Biography

Memo: Allan is Professor and Head of the Centre for Geo-Information Studies at University of East London. He has a Geography degree from Sheffield University, an MPhil in Applied Geomorphology and a PhD in Geographical Information Systems, both from the University of Hong Kong. Allan started his career as an engineering geomorphologist in Hong Kong, Malaysia and China during which he progressively focused on GIS and environmental modelling. Allan moved from private practice into academia to focus on research and curriculum development. In his current post, Allan concentrates on research and consultancy in data integration, analysis and modelling for both public and private sector organisations and in applications of geo-information engineering such as location-based services.