He has given numerous keynote addresses at conferences around the world, is on the editorial board for a number of journals and has published over 200 academic papers. Pettit’s expertise is in the convergence of the fields of city planning and digital technologies including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Planning Support Systems (PSS). He Chief investigator on a number of ARC, CRC and Industry projects including: The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit which has been the recepient of the NSW Planning Institute of Australia’s Award for Research Excellence and the Committee for Sydney’s award for Smart Cities – Industry partnership. Pettit established the City Analytics Lab (CAL), a dedicated space designed to support collaborative city planning and user-centred design. He is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia’s National Plantech Working Group, the advisory board for the Centre for Data Leadership, the Committee for Sydney’s Smart Cities Taskforce and the NSW Government Expert Advisory Group for Planning Evidence and Insights. He currently Chair of the Board of Directors for CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management).
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His research interest can be categorized under the heading ‘Planning Support Science for Sustainable Urban Futures’.Ĭhris Pettit is the Director of the City Futures Research Centre, inaugural professor of Urban Science, and Plus Alliance Fellow at UNSW Sydney. For 10 years he was the scientific director of an academic spin-off of Utrecht University (Nexpri) and was one of the founding fathers and first program director of the inter-university Master program GIMA (Geographical Information Management and Applications). He has participated in numerous interdisciplinary research projects, ranging from ‘Climate change and sustainable land use’ to ‘Spatial economic deconcentration’. He has been chair/member of several international conference organizations (EGIS JECC AGILE-2011 DDSS CUPUM-2013) and was for the past 10 years Chair of the International Board of Directors of CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management). CEUS - Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems). He is/was (co-)editor of several international peer-reviewed journals (e.g., ASAP - Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy) and serves on the editorial boards of diverse scientific journals (e.g.
He has published widely in (inter-)national journals and has edited a range of scientific books in the field of Planning Support Science.
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Geertman is full Professor in Planning Support Science and Chair of Spatial Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.