Gabriela Fernandez

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]

Building/Location

Storm Hall - 329

Bio

Dr. Gabriela Fernandez is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geography and Principal Investigator at the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA). She is the Graduate Advisor of the Big Data Analytics Master of Science Program (BDA) at SDSU. She received a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) in Milan, Italy (2018). During her studies she was a Ph.D. Visiting Student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, Building Technology, and Urban Metabolism Group. She received a B.S. in Public Administration with an emphasis in City Planning (2010) and a Master of City Planning (2012) from the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. Her research interests include urban metabolism ideologies and material flow analysis of metropolitan cities. Identifying urban typologies and socioeconomic indicators in the urban context while promoting public policy, smart cities, data science, circular economy methods, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and under representative populations. Dr. Fernandez serves as the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) delegate for the Major Group for Children & Youth.  As part of the SDSU Big Ideas Challenge, Dr. Fernandez is the Director of the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab (MOC-LLAB) under the HDMA at SDSU (2019) working to localize the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in southern California and the Baja California Mexico region.

Areas of Expertise

Big data analytics, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, vulnerable communities, climate change, sustainability, urban metabolism

Publications

Publications (Developed and Designed an Exhibition at SDSU on the SDGs through the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab)