About

I am a co-founder of coUrbanize, a startup that provides an online community management platform for urban developers to share project information with residents. We are based in Cambridge, MA.

I am interested in sustainability and societal equality. I have a PhD (2012) and Masters (2008) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelors (2006) from University College Dublin. At MIT I worked with John Fernandez on the topic of urban metabolism, focusing on neighborhood scale analysis.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the National GeoComputation Center, Ireland, (Oct. 2012 - March 2013) where I worked with Alexei Pozdnoukhov as part of the StratAG project. In Sep. 2012, I co-founded urbmet.com with Daniel Wiesmann. We made geospatial tools to facilitate analysis, with clients in the US and Europe.

Blog Posts

• 05 Oct 2014 » geobitcoin - a thought experiment

Projects

• Dec 2012 » coUrbanize
• Aug 2012 » urbmet
• May 2012 » Neighborhood Visualizer

Side Projects

• Oct 2013 » Who's Afraid of Peer Review? | [data-viz]

Theses

• Jun 2012 » PhD: Estimating Material and Energy Intensities of Urban Areas
• Jun 2008 » Masters: Modeling the Resource Consumption of Housing in New Orleans using System Dynamics
• May 2005 » Undergraduate: An Investigation of Hemp and Lime as a Building Material