Editor In Chief

• Jan 2021 - Present

Professor of Policy and Planning

• Dec 2019 - Present

Appointed in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Department of Government and Public Policy, School of Politics. Engaged in forming interdisciplinary collaboration in research and teaching at the interface of science, technology and society. - Technology and Innovation Cluster Champion. Working to champion and embed one of the UK's largest innovation districts within research, education, public participation and governmental outreach. - Co-Director Centre for Urban Policy, Planning and Technology, with Prof. Sergio Porta, Urban Design. The centre is engaged in the quantitative analysis of the shape and form of cities, and the impact of these forms on governance, citizens, and the urban environment. - Pathway Lead Scottish Graduate School for Social Science; Strathclyde Representative for Social Geography, Environment and Urban Planning - Europe top 100 scientist, Arts, Design and Architecture, adscientificindex.com - Academic Director. Directing interdisciplinary, interfaculty M.Scs in the space of technology policy. Interim director for the M.Sc. in Global Sustainable cities, 2019-2020. Consulting director for Urban Policy Analysis, 2021-2022, M.Sc. in Technology Policy and Management; forthcoming 2022. - BIGPROD, H2020 project. Innovation, big data, and the European productivity gap. Dr. Arho Suominen, VTT is the consortium lead. The work involves extensive tech mining on the web pages of European high technology firms. The work will entail creating new indicators and dashboards to provide policy advice, using open software frameworks such as Jupyter notebooks. - Lecturer, M.Sc. Systems Engineering and Management. The social and economic embedding of technology in society. - Lecturer, Continuing Professional Education, Economic Policy Leadership Programme. Participating in the design and delivery of a continuing professional education programme for governmental and industrial leaders in the space of policy. Show less

Associate Professor

• Dec 2011 - Oct 2019

Policy Analysis Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Teaching M.Sc. courses to Dutch and international students in the areas of policy modeling, technology analysis, strategy and negotiation, and systems theory. Co-author of three books -- Forecasting and Management of Technology, Tech Mining (with Alan Porter), and Actor and Strategy Models (with Leon Hermans). All three books are with John Wiley and Sons). Tech Mining is also available in Mandarin by the Tsinghua University Press. Invited lecturer in policy analysis (with Prof. Warren Walker) at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Show less

Assistant Professor

• 2003 - 2011

Instructor

• Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

Designed, developed and instructed a course on Decision-Making on Projects for Shell senior engineering staff. Designed, developed and instructed a course on Decision-Making on Projects for Shell senior engineering staff.

Econometric Engineer

• Mar 2003 - Dec 2003

The company offers pricing software and services for consumer package goods manufacturers and retailers. Maintained and wrote SAS code for estimating consumer product demand given point of sale data. Created and diagnosed SQL queries as a part of analysis lifecycle. Worked as a founding engineer before IPO and subsequent to IBM acquisition. The company offers pricing software and services for consumer package goods manufacturers and retailers. Maintained and wrote SAS code for estimating consumer product demand given point of sale data. Created and diagnosed SQL queries as a part of analysis lifecycle. Worked as a founding engineer before IPO and subsequent to IBM acquisition.

Consultant

• Jan 2003 - Mar 2003

Developed a system to cluster viewing habits using Matlab based on household demograhics and Nielsen television data. Developed a system to cluster viewing habits using Matlab based on household demograhics and Nielsen television data.

Adjunct Professor

• Jan 1999 - Dec 1999

Taught microeconomics to Ph.Ds in Public Policy and Public Administration Taught microeconomics to Ph.Ds in Public Policy and Public Administration

Knowledge Discovery Engineer

• Oct 1996 - Aug 1999

Developed data mining and statistical solutions for customers in the e-commerce and consumer package goods industry. Worked with Teradata data warehouses. Designed and developed SQL queues and created OLAP middleware. Received five national and international patents. The branch was the Human-Interface Technology Center. Developed data mining and statistical solutions for customers in the e-commerce and consumer package goods industry. Worked with Teradata data warehouses. Designed and developed SQL queues and created OLAP middleware. Received five national and international patents. The branch was the Human-Interface Technology Center.