Visiting Professor and Fulbright Distinguished Chair Juliana Maantay is Professor of Urban and Environmental Geography at City University of New York and Director of the Geographical Information Science (GISc) Programme. Her research interests include using GISc for spatial analyses of environmental health and justice issues; the impacts of land use and the built environment on health; urban hazards and risk assessment; and community-based participatory research.

Prof Maantay earned a BSc from Cornell University, a Master of Urban Planning (MUP) from New York University, an MA in Geography/GISc from Hunter College/ CUNY, and an MPhil and PhD in Urban Environmental Geography from Rutgers University.

As the Fulbright-Glasgow Urban Lab Visiting Professor, she will explore issues of urban planning, policy, environmental health justice and the built environment, using New York City and Glasgow as case study cities.

Juliana’s academic career has developed over the past 13 years. Prior to that she worked for the New York Planning Department and so has considerable experience of practice and understanding of the relationships that can and should develop between academic research, applied research and practice. Juliana has extensive experience of advocacy and of working with communities.