Ali Mansourian is a Professor of Geomatics at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sweden. He serves as the Director of the Lund University GIS Centre, the coordinator of the “GIS & RS Master Programme”, and is a former board member of the department. He is also an active member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Academic Network and a former council member of the European Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE).

Prof. Mansourian has pioneered research in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) — an innovative field at the intersection of GIScience and Artificial Intelligence — Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) using multi-objective optimization techniques. His extensive research portfolio also includes the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in diverse areas such as epidemiology and public health, disaster risk management, land-use planning, climate change, environmental management, and sustainability.

Throughout his career, Prof. Mansourian has demonstrated exceptional leadership in large-scale international and national reearch initiatives and capacity-building projects, including those funded by Erasmus+ and SIDA. His extensive experience spans coordinating multidisciplinary teams, evaluating proposals for major European research grant programs, chairing and organizing scientific programs for international conferences and workshops, supervising PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, serving as an invited evaluator for PhD theses, and publishing over 180 scientific works comprising journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, and technical reports.

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