Cristina Vrinceanu

Research Fellow in Slavery and War (Earth Observation and Data Science)

Email: cristina.vrinceanu2@nottingham.ac.uk

Cristina Vrinceanu is a Rights Lab Research Fellow in Slavery and War with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, a collaborative centre between the University of Nottingham and King's College London. Her research in the centre focuses on the implementation of geospatial solutions for understanding the manifestations and dimensions of modern slavery in war, as well as forecasting future occurrences. Drawing from her expertise with Earth Observation and geospatial technologies, her interest lies in building tangible products that make use of the cutting-edge developments in EO and data science to uncover the relationship between the social and physical dimensions of our world. This includes cloud-native solutions, alternative modalities of geodata representation, GeoFMs and, more broadly, GeoAI.

Cristina holds a PhD in Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy from the Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham, where she used satellite SAR data to study the extent of sea oil pollution from both anthropogenic and natural origin. She has prior extensive experience in the geospatial and space industry. Cristina is an advocate for free and open-source solutions in geospatial, STEM education and capacity building.