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Stefan Steiniger

Profesor (Auxiliar)

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Geographic Information Systems, GIScience, Spatial Analysis, GeoVisualization, Software Development, Wildlife Ecology, Urban Planning, Transport Planning, Urban Accessibility, Participatory Planning, Machine Learning

Educación

  •  Geography, Geographic Information Science, UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH. Suiza, 2007
  •  Ing. Civil mencion Geodesia, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN. Alemania, 2003
  •  Cartography, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN. Alemania, 1999
  •  Dipl. Ing. en Geodesia, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN. Alemania, 2003

Experiencia Académica

  •   Research Associate Other

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ingenieria

    Santiago de Chile, Chile

    2015 - 2022

  •   Afiliate Researcher, PostDoc Other

    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

    Faculty of Arts

    Calgary, Canada

    2008 - 2009

  •   PostDoc Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

    Engineering

    Calgary, Canada

    2009 - 2012

  •   Sessional Lecturer / Instructor of Record Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

    Faculty of Arts

    Calgary, Canada

    2010 - 2010

  •   PhD Student / Research Assistant Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH

    Sciences

    Zurich, Suiza

    2004 - 2007

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN

    Forst-Geo-Hydro Wissenschaften

    Dresden, Alemania

    2000 - 2001

  •   Profesor (Auxiliar) Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Ingeniería

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2022 - A la fecha

  •   Senior Researcher / Investigador Asociado Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudio Urbanos

    Santiago de Chile, Chile

    2017 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoc / Project Manager Full Time

    University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    2011 - 2012

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    2009 - 2010

  •   Affiliate Researcher / Postdoc Other

    University of Calgary

    Calgary, Chile

    2008 - 2009

  •   Research Assitant / PhD Student Full Time

    University of Zurich

    Zurich, Suiza

    2004 - 2007

  •   Owner Part Time

    GeoSteiniger Ltda

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - A la fecha

  •   Intern - GIS Programming Full Time

    GEF-RIS AG (now Bentley Germany)

    Leimen, Heidelberg, Alemania

    2003 - 2004

  •   Intern Full Time

    Centroid Oy (now Sito Oy)

    Espoo, Finlandia

    2001 - 2002

  •   Coordinator Observatorio.CEDEUS.cl Part Time

    CEDEUS

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - 2022

  •   Professor Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2022 - A la fecha

  •   R & D Lead Walkability Platform Other

    Walk21 Foundations

    Cheltenhamp, Reino Unido

    2018 - A la fecha

  •   Co-Coordinator Observatorio CEDEUS Part Time

    CEDEUS

    Santiago de Chile, Chile

    2022 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Supervision of MSc Students: 2 (University of Zurich);
Supervision of MSc Students as co supervisor: 4 + 1 (Universidad de Concepción, Pont. Univ. Católica de Chile);
Co-Supervision of PhD Students: 1 (University of Calgary, informal);
Supervision of Technical Personnel in Research Projects (i.e. training of Highly Qualified Personal - HQP): since 2013 (and until 2022) I have supervised 7 software developers, 6 data analysts, 1 designer, 4 interns. Currently I am co-directing the CEDEUS Observatory with 4 analysts, 2 programmers, and 1 intern;
Supervision of "Google Summer of Code" Students: 5 (Projects: OpenJUMP GIS, OpenTripPlanner, OneBusAway);
Participation as Module Lecturer for "Diplomado Courses" by CEDEUS for participants from Chilean ministries.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   OGC student app challenge 2013

    Open GeoSpatial Consortium

    Estados Unidos, 2013

    My Colleague and PhD Student Ebrahim Poorazizi won the OGC student app challenge 2013, in which we present the WalkYourPlace app. This browser-based application utilizes heavily OGCs WPS standard to perform an evaluation of urban accessibility, similar to the webpage WalkScore.com. I have been co-supervising Ebrahim and developed parts of the backend processing - that utilizes the free and open source software OpenTripPlanner.org to generate a locations accessible area using walking, biking and transit.

  •   Prospective Young Researcher Scholarhsip

    Swiss National Science Foundation

    Suiza, 2007

    Swiss Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to perform research abroad for 12 months. Hosting university for my fellowship was the University of Calgary

  •   Fondecyt Regular

    FONDECYT

    Chile, 2015

    Fondecyt Regular for the R&D project "AccesoBarrio" with funds for 4 years (approx. 145.000.000 CLP).

  •   Fondedoc

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Chile, 2016

    The Fondedoc aimed at building a 3D Visualisation Tool to support teaching a course in Landscape Architecture using modern web mapping tools to overlay data on a wodden landscape model of Santiago ("Visualizador 3D de datos Geoespaciales del Gran Santiago con soporte web interactiva 1.0"). Principal Applicant was Nicolas Tugas (UC) and funding provided was approx. CLP 3.400.000.

  •   Leonardo Da Vinci Scholarship

    European Union - Erasmus / Leonardo Program

    Alemania, 2001

    Scholarship to support living and working 7 months as an intern in Finland (approx. 450 euro/month + flight).

  •   DEGEN II

    Swiss National Science Foundation

    Suiza, 2007

    Funds by the Swiss National Science Foundation to continue/finish PhD studies for 6 months (approx. 40.000 CHF for me and my co-project PhD student. The PhD supervisor, Dr. R. Weibel, was PI for the original DEGEN I grant that funded 2 PhD students over 3 years.

  •   Author of the "Most Downloaded Paper" - Journal of Ecological Informatics

    Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles

    Chile, 2010

    My paper "Free and open source geographic information tools for landscape ecology" in Ecological Informatics, 2009, 4(4): 183-195 was the most downloaded article of the journal Ecol. Info. for the academic year 2009-2010. Subsequently the paper has been also the most cited article of the journal for the period 2008-2013, according to Scopus on 9. July 2013.

  •   Author of the "Most Downloaded Paper" - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

    Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles

    Chile, 2014

    Our paper "The 2012 free and open source GIS software map - A guide to facilitate research, development, and adoption" in CEUS, 2013, 39: 136-150 was the most downloaded article of the journal Computers, Environment and Urban System for the year 2014. (data from Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles)

  •   Keynote Speaker - OGRS 2009 Conference

    Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques de la Ville - IRSTV

    Francia, 2009

    I got invited as a keynote speaker to the first OGRS - Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium, in Nantes with all costs covered by IRSTV.

  •   Invited Speaker at Measuring Walking Workshop Ireland

    Walk21 Ireland Conference

    Irlanda, 2022

    I was invited to present my work and related advances on the topic of evaluating walkability at the Measuring Walking workshop, a pre-conference Workshop of the Walk21 Ireland conference.


 

Article (27)

Aging on the Beach. The Emerging Migration of Seniors to the Central Coast of Chile (1987 - 2017) Envejecer en la playa. La emergente migración de personas mayores hacia el Litoral Central de Chile (1987 – 2017)
Comparing green spaces provision and accessibility indicators over a latitudinal gradient and multiple climate zones
Development and Operationalisation of Local Sustainability Indicators - A Global South Perspective on Data Challenges and Opportunities for GIScience
Elderly Walking Access to Street Markets in Chile: An Asset for Food Security in an Unequal Country
STRIDE.App - Una aplicación Android para recolectar experiencias de peatones para apoyar a las intervenciones con un foco en la caminabilidad
Fair transport policies for older people: accessibility and affordability of public transport in Santiago, Chile
Perception of Green Spaces Preparedness and Accessibility During COVID-19: An Exploratory Survey in Two Mid-Sized Chilean Cities
WALKING ACCESS TO URBAN WETLAND SAN OPPORTUNITY FOR RECREATION AND WELLBEING
Vulnerable individuals and institutions: the double territorial burden of COVID-19 in Chile
Localising urban sustainability indicators: The CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process
Urban mobility and elderlies in Santiago de Chile: The value of integrating analytical methods, a case study of the San Eugenio neighbourhood
A resiliência urbana frente à dependência do combustível fóssil: o caso da mobilidade urbana do Rio de Janeiro
BUILDING A GEOGRAPHIC DATA REPOSITORY FOR URBAN RESEARCH WITH FREE SOFTWARE – LEARNING FROM Observatorio.CEDEUS.cl
Exploring the social and spatial potential of an intermodal approach to transport planning
Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs
A service-oriented architecture to enable participatory planning: an e-planning platform
A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms
A scaled line-based kernel density estimator for the retrieval of utilization distributions and home ranges from GPS movement tracks
The 2012 free and open source GIS software map - A guide to facilitate research, development, and adoption
OpenJUMP HoRAE-A Free GIS and Toolbox for Home-Range Analysis
PlanYourPlace.ca – Developing a web based geospatial infrastructure for sustainable community planning
Utilising urban context recognition and machine learning to improve the generalisation of buildings
An overview on free and open source GIS developments
Free and open source geographic information tools for landscape ecology
An approach for the classification of urban building structures based on discriminant analysis techniques.
Relations among map objects in cartographic generalization.
Linieglättung mit Snakes als Filteroperation.

Abstract (1)

WalkYourPlace - Building a Web-based Platform for Urban Accessibility Analysis

BookSection (2)

Data Structure: Spatial Data on the Web
Modelling Geographic Relationships in Automated Environments

ConferencePaper (3)

Análisis y recomendaciones para el uso de drones (UAV) en estudios de movilidad
The academic SDI—Towards understanding spatial data infrastructures for research and education
Can we use OpenStreetMap POIs for the Evaluation of Urban Accessibility?

Proyecto (12)

Efectos de urbanización y accesibilidad en los Humedales Urbanos del área metropolitana de Concepción (URBANCOST II)
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable
Global Sidewalk Challenge - STRIDE Platform => Shared Travel Reality of Individual Deficient Environments
Piloto Plataforma Tecnologica para la Gestion Eficiente de la Ciudad
Small Steps Forward - Pequeños Pasos
Visualizador 3D de datos Geoespaciales del Gran Santiago con soporte web interactiva 1.0
ACCESOBARRIO ? A WEB-BASED PLATFORM TO EVALUATE AND MODEL URBAN ACCESSIBILITY
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable
PlanYourPlace
PAGEVIS-LD - Pattern-Aware GEneralisation and VISualization of Land-use and Land-cover Data
DEGEN - Data Enrichment for automated map GENeralization
Analyse, Approximation und Kompression von Reliefdaten, speziell digitaler Geländemodelle, mit Hilfe der Wavelettransformation
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Stefan Steiniger

Profesor (Auxiliar)

Ingeniería de Construcción y Transporte

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

4
Giovanni Vecchio

Assistant professor

Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
Carolina Rojas

Titular Professor

Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

56223545513, Chile

3
Helen De la Fuente

Encargada de Gestión de datos y SIG

City Lab Bío Bío

Concepción, Chile

2
Francisco de la Barrera

Profesor asociado

Planificación Territorial y Sistemas Urbanos

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Pablo Pasten

Associate Professor

Department of Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

SANTIAGO, Chile

1
Maria Molinos

Profesora Asociada

Ingenieria Hidráulica y Ambiental

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
RICARDO TRUFFELLO

Assistant Professor

School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Juan Muñoz

Professor

Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Elizabeth Wagemann

Profesora Asociada

Facultad de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

1
Alejandra Vives

DEPTO. SALUD PÚBLICA, UNIVESIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Juan Carrasco

Associate Professor

Civil Engineering

Universidad de Concepcion

Concepcion, Chile

1
Vicente Aprigliano

Profesor Auxiliar

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Lake Sagaris

Profesora Asociada Adjunta

Ingeniería

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Santiago, Chile

1
Ignacio Tiznado

Investigador Postdoctoral

Escuela de Ingeniería

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile