Christopher Doll

Christopher Doll is a research fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. He has a broad range of research interests with a focus on urban areas and geospatial technologies. His recent work has explores how cities can shift local development patterns to more sustainable pathways in various different sectors such as transport, energy, waste and biodiversity. To support this, he is developing a number of tools that consider both the quantitative and qualitative elements of urban development. This has developed into interest into systems approaches in urban health and is a visiting research fellow at the UNU International Institute for Global Health in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently working on a project looking at analysing and building cooperation for low-carbon technology transfer.

Dr. Doll is originally from the United Kingdom and holds a bachelor’s degree in geography and mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London, MSc and PhD degrees in remote sensing from University College London. Prior to joining UNU, he has held academic positions at Columbia University in New York (CIESIN) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.

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People | October 23, 2016 11:00 pm