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.

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  Name Location
 

*Denotes Advisory Board member

 North America
Gary Berg-Cross*
Cognitive psychologist (PhD, SUNY–Stony Brook)		 Potomac, MD
Kevin Boyack
President of SciTech Strategies, Inc.		 Albuquerque, NM
Chaomei Chen
Drexel University		 Philadelphia, PA
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
Bonnie DeVarco*
Media X Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University		 Palo Alto, CA
Marjorie M.K. Hlava
President, chairman, and founder of Access Innovations		 Albuquerque, NM
Peter A. Hook*
Head of Digital and Scholarly Services and LawArXiv Administrator, Cornell Law Library 		Ithaca, NY
Vincent Larivière
Universitè de Montrèal		 Montrèal, Cananda
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
Lev Manovich*
Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Director, Software Studies Initiative (big data, digital humanities, visualization)		 New York, NY
Micki McGee
Fordham University Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology		 Bronx, NY
Jeffrey Piestrak
Cornell University		 Ithaca, NY
Alan Porter
Professor Emeritus of the School of Public Policy and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology		 Atlanta, GA
Carlo Ratti
Architect, Engineer, and Director of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology		 Cambridge, MA
Eric Rodenbeck
Founder and Creative Director of Stamen and member of the Board of Directors of the Kenneth Rainin Foundationn		 San Francisco, CA
Martin Schaaper
Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics		 Montréal, Canada
Andre Skupin*
Associate Professor of Geography at San Diego State University		 San Diego, CA
Michael J. Stamper
Data Visualization Designer and Consultant for the Arts, Virginia Tech		 Blacksburg, VA
Stephen Uzzo*
Vice President of Science and Technology for the New York Hall of Science		 Queens, NY
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
Scott B. Weingart
Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University 		Pittsburgh, PA
  Latin America
Mariana Espinosa
National Autonomous University of Mexico 		Mexico City, Mexico
  Europe
Petra Ahrweiler
European Academy of Technology Assessment		 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Michael Batty
University College London		 London, England
Bob Bishop
Chairman and founder of BBWORLD Consulting Services Sàrl and president and founder of the ICES Foundation. Geneva, Switzerland		 Geneva, Switzerland
Monika Börner Leipzig, Germany
David Chavalarias
Complex Systems Institute of Paris IdF		 Paris, France
Maria Rosaria D’Esposito
ATTN and Università degli Studi di Salerno		 Salerno, Italy
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
George Kampis
Eötvös University		 Budapest, Hungary
Loet Leydesdorff
University of Amsterdam		 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ed (Noyons) Noijons
CWTS Leiden University		 Leiden, The Netherlands
Veslava Osinska
Institute of Information Science and Book Studies at Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland		 Torun, Poland
Andrew Ravenscroft
Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI), London Metropolitan University		 London, United Kingdom
Jörg Reichardt
Institute of Theoretical Physics at University of Würzburg
 Germany
Andrea Scharnhorst
Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Netherlands
Moritz Stefaner
Freelance designer on the crossroads of data visualization, information aesthetics, and user interface design		 Bremen Area, Germany
Benjamin Wiederkehr*
Founder, InteractiveThings.com		 Zürich, Switzerland
  Asia
Sujit Bhattacharya
National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS)		 New Delhi, India
Indira Chowdhury
2011 CASI-NIF Spring Visiting Scholar; Scholar-in-Residence, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore		 Bangalore, India
Yuko Harayama
Tohoku University		 Sendai, Japan
  Australia
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.