Exhibit Ambassadors
These men and women from around the globe work selflessly to make the exhibit a success. Their intellectual guidance and commitment to promoting science mapping are what has made Places & Spaces the vital exhibit it is today. Those whom are also members of the Advisory Board not only work to build public awareness of the exhibit, but also participate in the map selection process.
*Denotes Advisory Board member.
Name | Location | |
*Denotes Advisory Board member |
North America | |
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Gary Berg-Cross* Cognitive psychologist (PhD, SUNY–Stony Brook) |
Potomac, MD |
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Kevin Boyack* President of SciTech Strategies, Inc. |
Albuquerque, NM |
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Chaomei Chen Drexel University |
Philadelphia, PA |
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Donna J. Cox* Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Urbana-Champaign, IL |
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Bonnie DeVarco* Media X Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University |
Palo Alto, CA |
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Marjorie M.K. Hlava* President, chairman, and founder of Access Innovations |
Albuquerque, NM |
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Peter A. Hook* Head of Digital and Scholarly Services and LawArXiv Administrator, Cornell Law Library |
Ithaca, NY |
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Vincent Larivière Universitè de Montrèal |
Montrèal, Cananda |
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Sofia Liberman Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
Mexico City, Mexico |
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Manuel Lima* Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a senior user experience design lead at Microsoft Bing, and the founder of VisualComplexity.com |
New York, NY |
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Lev Manovich* Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Director, Software Studies Initiative (big data, digital humanities, visualization) |
New York, NY |
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Micki McGee Fordham University Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology |
Bronx, NY |
Jeffrey Piestrak Cornell University |
Ithaca, NY | |
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Alan Porter Professor Emeritus of the School of Public Policy and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology |
Atlanta, GA |
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Carlo Ratti* Architect, Engineer, and Director of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, MA |
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Eric Rodenbeck* Founder and Creative Director of Stamen and member of the Board of Directors of the Kenneth Rainin Foundationn |
San Francisco, CA |
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Martin Schaaper Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
Montréal, Canada |
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Andre Skupin* Associate Professor of Geography at San Diego State University |
San Diego, CA |
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Michael J. Stamper Data Visualization Designer and Consultant for the Arts, Virginia Tech |
Blacksburg, VA |
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Stephen Uzzo* Vice President of Science and Technology for the New York Hall of Science |
Queens, NY |
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Caroline S. Wagner* Wolf Chair at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs and North American Editor of the Science & Public Policy journal |
Columbus, OH |
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Scott B. Weingart Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University |
Pittsburgh, PA |
South America | ||
Melissa Mann Scientific Electronic Library Online |
Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
Europe | ||
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Petra Ahrweiler European Academy of Technology Assessment |
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler |
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Michael Batty University College London |
London, England |
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Bob Bishop* Chairman and founder of BBWORLD Consulting Services Sàrl and president and founder of the ICES Foundation. Geneva, Switzerland |
Geneva, Switzerland |
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Monika Börner | Leipzig, Germany |
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David Chavalarias Complex Systems Institute of Paris IdF |
Paris, France |
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Maria Rosaria D’Esposito ATTN and Università degli Studi di Salerno |
Salerno, Italy |
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Sara Fabrikant* Professor of geography and head of the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) group at the GIScience Center, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
Zürich, Switzerland |
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George Kampis Eötvös University |
Budapest, Hungary |
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Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Ed (Noyons) Noijons CWTS Leiden University |
Leiden, The Netherlands |
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Veslava Osinska Institute of Information Science and Book Studies at Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland |
Torun, Poland |
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Andrew Ravenscroft Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI), London Metropolitan University |
London, United Kingdom |
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Jörg Reichardt Institute of Theoretical Physics at University of Würzburg |
Germany |
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Andrea Scharnhorst Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
The Netherlands |
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Moritz Stefaner* Freelance designer on the crossroads of data visualization, information aesthetics, and user interface design |
Bremen Area, Germany |
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Benjamin Wiederkehr* Founder, InteractiveThings.com |
Zürich, Switzerland |
Asia | ||
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Sujit Bhattacharya National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS) |
New Delhi, India |
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Indira Chowdhury 2011 CASI-NIF Spring Visiting Scholar; Scholar-in-Residence, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore |
Bangalore, India |
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Yuko Harayama Tohoku University |
Sendai, Japan |
Australia | ||
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Keith Nesbitt The University of Newcastle |
Callaghan, Australia |
Acknowledgements: This exhibit is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238261, CHE-0524661, IIS-0534909 and IIS-0715303, the James S. McDonnell Foundation; Thomson Reuters; the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, University Information Technology Services, and the School of Library and Information Science, all three at Indiana University. Some of the data used to generate the science maps is from the Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and Scopus by Elsevier. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.