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My main research interest is where people, geography, and computer science meet: new modes of production and usage of geographic information (crowdsourced and volunteered), related technological and methodological developments (mobile data collection and edge computing on environmental IoT sensors), and improvement of scientific practice (open and reproducible research). Citizen Science is where all these elements come together.
Organisations Frank joined the ITC in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. His main research interest is where people, geography, and computer science meet: new modes of production and usage of geographic information (crowdsourced and volunteered), related technological and methodological developments (mobile data collection and edge computing on environmental IoT sensors), and improvement of scientific practice (open and reproducible research). Citizen Science is where all these elements come together.
Since 2009, he holds a PhD (Dr. sc. nat.) from the University of Zurich, followed by work as a post-doctoral researcher at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and consultant for Piksel Inc. More detailed information on Frank’s CV can be found on his public LinkedIn profile page
Publications Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021
Social participation in planning, design, and management of public spaces: the case of Mexico (2024) Planning Practice and Research, 39 (4), 565-596. Alvarado Vazquez, S., Madureira, A. M., Ostermann, F. O. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2024.2315391 Educating for Open and Reproducible Research in the Geosciences: Lessons from an MSc program (2024) AGILE: GIScience Series, 5 (43), 1-5. Ostermann, F. O. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-5-43-2024 Social participation and the role of ICT in the planning, design, and maintenance of public spaces (2024) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Alvarado Vazquez, S. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560146 Challenges and opportunities of public space management in Mexico (2024) Cities, 146 . Article 104743. Alvarado Vazquez, S., Madureira, A. M., Ostermann, F. O. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104743 Visualizing emoji usage in geo-social media across time, space, and topic (2024) Frontiers in Communication, 9 . Article 1303629. Levi, S., Hauthal, E., Mukherjee, S. & Ostermann, F. O. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1303629 How to Count Travelers Without Tracking Them Between Locations (2023) In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2023 . Article 66 (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs; Vol. 277). Dagstuhl. Shafaeipoursarmoor, Z., van Steen, M. & Ostermann, F. O. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.66 The use of ICTs to support social participation in the planning, design and maintenance of public spaces in Latin America (2023) ISPRS international journal of geo-information, 12 (6). Article 237. Alvarado Vazquez, S., Madureira, A. M., Ostermann, F. O. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12060237 Challenges of public space management in Mexico (2023) [Working paper › Preprint]. Zenodo. Alvarado Vazquez, S., Madureira, A. M., Ostermann, F. O. & Pfeffer, K. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7515977 Geosocial Sensor London (2023) [Dataset Types › Dataset]. Areda (University of Twente). Ostermann, F. Collaborative geovisual analytics (2022) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Garcia Chapeton, G. A. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553674 Processing data close to its origin - edge computing on IoT devices to detect noise pollution (2022) In Emerging approaches for data-driven innovation in Europe (pp. 36-52). Ostermann, F. O. https://doi.org/10.2760/630723 Towards an automated information extraction model from Twitter threads during disasters (2022) In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 637-653). ISCRAM. Zahra, K., Das, R. D., Ostermann, F. O. & Purves, R. S. https://idl.iscram.org/files/kiranzahra/2022/2444_KiranZahra_etal2022.pdf Peer assessment to improve reproducibility of computational project work (2021) In Proceedings SEFI 49th Annual Conference 2021: Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting? (pp. 1080-1090). Societe Europeenne pour la Formation des Ingenieurs (SEFI). Ostermann, F. O. Reproducible research and GIScience: An evaluation using GIScience conference papers (2021) In 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science - Part II, GIScience 2021 (pp. VII). Article 2 (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs; Vol. 208). Dagstuhl. Ostermann, F. O. , Nüst, D., Granell, C., Hofer, B. & Konkol, M. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.II.2 ITC's strategic plan for Open Science 2021-2025: towards an open future (2021) [Book/Report › Report]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Konkol, M., Chang, L., Da Silva Mano, A., Deon, F., Koelen, M., Korringa, D., Mettinkhof, R., Nelson, A. D., Ostermann, F. O. , Rietbroek, R., van der Werff, H. M. A., Venus, V. & Zurita-Milla, R. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5113578 Research profiles Please note that the list below is generated automatically and might not be up-to-date regarding courses from the current academic year.
Affiliated study programs Courses academic year 2024/2025 Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2023/2024 
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