Rate My Professor Ivana Ivanova

Dr. Ivana Ivanova is a Senior Lecturer in Spatial Sciences within the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University, Australia, and serves as a FrontierSI Research Fellow and Science Leader in Spatial Information Infrastructures. She earned an engineering degree and a PhD in 2006 in Geodesy and Cartography, specializing in Geoinformatics, from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Her PhD thesis on the quality of geospatial datasets was awarded 2nd place by the Rector of the university. Ivana's academic career includes positions at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (2000-2007), University of Twente in the Netherlands (2007-2013), and São Paulo State University in Brazil (2014-2017), prior to joining Curtin University in 2017. She also held a Research Fellowship at the CRC for Spatial Information (2017-2018). At Curtin, she teaches geoinformatics, spatial data quality and geodata distribution, geodata management, analysis and modelling in the Bachelor of Surveying program, and lectures in the postgraduate Geospatial Intelligence course. Ivana advocates for open source geospatial tools, volunteers with Geo4All, and coordinates the United Nations OpenGIS PostGIS training.

Ivana's research specializes in spatial data quality modeling, fitness for use assessments, provenance and lineage of spatial data, spatial search mechanisms, and spatial knowledge infrastructures. She has authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, scientific articles, and conference papers, including a book on Data Quality in Spatial Datasets, as well as key publications such as 'From spatial data to spatial knowledge infrastructure: A proposed architecture' (2020), 'Open geospatial software and data: A review of the current state and a perspective into the future' (2020), and 'FAIR and standard access to spatial data as the means for achieving sustainable development goals' (2019). Her scholarship has accumulated over 500 citations on Google Scholar. Since 2017, she has secured research grants totaling more than AUD $1 million. Ivana holds prominent leadership roles, including co-chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Data Quality Domain Working Group, project leader for ISO 19157-1 and ISO 19157-3 standards on geographic information quality, co-convenor of the ISO/TC 211 Advisory Group for Ontology Maintenance, representative for Curtin University on the Standards Australia IT-004 Geographic Information/Geomatics committee, and member of the UN-GGIM Academic Network Executive Team.