👫 I hold a position as a Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War with the Rights Lab Beacon, University of Nottingham where I develop geospatial and Earth Observation based algorithms to detect patterns associated with modern slavery across global regions affected by conflic or in pre-/post- conflict conditions.
Background in: Geospatial and Earth Observation data analysis and mapping, Algorithm development, Product development, Geospatial Systems design, Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Geospatial Big Data and Modern Slavery

🌊 I recently completed a PhD with the Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham defending a thesis on the assessessment of offshore oil pollution and oil seep-detection in the Black Sea basin using Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Observation data, ML and open-source programmatic approaches.
Background in: Ocean Surface Processes, Petroleum Geoscience, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Earth Observaton Marine Products, Algorithm Development, Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Earth Observation

💻 My research interests include Earth Observation/Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Science (GIS), Big Data, Machine Learning/AI and cloud computing (e.g., AWS, GCP, Google Earth Engine, Planetary Computer, open source alternatives) to study and build products covering the intersection between social and environmental global issues. I am particularily interested in how we can use these technologies for solving challenges in marginalised or underserved communities affected by current global challenges.

🌍 I am very keen on all things open and the power of foss4g and I occasionally volunteer with OSGeo globally and in the UK and with geo-spatial.org in Romania. I'm also very happy to share my knowledge and expertise and love helping people learn and apply geospatial data and tools.

🖖 Organizations that I'm currently actively involved with or support:

• EO: Geological Remote Sensing Group
• FOSS4G: OSGeo as a Charter Member, geo-spatial.org where I manage the Romanian Cartographic Association project (affiliated to International Cartographic Association as national member).

• 📫 How to reach me: cristina.vrinceanu2@nottingham.ac.uk