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Staff Profile

Dr Kristina Wolf

Research Associate

Background

Qualifications:

  • PhD in Geospatial Systems with the Centre for Doctoral Training (funded by UKRI’s EPSRC and Ordnance Survey) at Newcastle University (2020-2024).
  • Research visit at the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) at The Ohio State University, USA (09/2022 - 12/2022).
  • MRes in Geospatial Data Science at Newcastle University (2019-2020).
  • Research semester at the Geographical Information Science & Transportation Lab at Tohoku University, Japan (09/2018-03/2019).
  • MSc in Management Information Systems at Paderborn University, Germany (2017-2019).
  • BSc in International Management for Business and Information Technology at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Germany (2012-2015).

Experiences:

  • Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Germany (2015-2019).
  • Student in Cooperative Education and Consultant at Deutsche Post DHL Group DHL (2012-2015).
  • Project work experience in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, India, the USA, Malaysia and Ethiopia.

Awards:

  • 2024 European Spatial Data Reserach (EuroSDR) Award for the best PhD thesis related to geoinformation science.
  • 2019 Esri Young Scholar Award Germany for the best MSc thesis.
Research

National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe):

  • Conduct a case study on the impacts of extreme weather on mass participation events using the example of the 2023 Great North Run event as a case study.
  • Conduct user research with project partners, including transport operators, councils, and government bodies.

Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub (funded by UKRI’s Global Challenge Research Fund):

  • Co-developed and delivered training courses on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for our partners in Malaysia, including academia, regional and local water management stakeholders.
  • Designed a spatio-temporal dashboard solution for monitoring water quality for our partners at the Water Land and Resource Centre in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

PhD research:

Following the systems engineering design, my work integrates (near-) real-time weather, hydrological and transport data to support multi-agencies in incident management and flood impact assessment.

Topics:

  • Dynamic flood hazard maps
  • Computer vision algorithms for image analysis
  • System of systems
  • Smart cities, digital twins

Projects:

  • I was a project officer for a UK Space Agency-funded project exploring the application of satellite imagery for emergency services during different stages of incident management.
  • I designed and developed a Highways Major Incident Dashboard prototype for a county council helping to respond to extreme weather events.
  • For a utility network operator in the UK, I implemented a GIS-based dashboard to visualise various faults.
  • As part of a citizen science project, I developed a GIS application with analytical capabilities to assess the impact of earthquakes in different geographic locations.
Publications