Dr. Jean-Claude Thill was awarded the Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award

Dr. Jean-Claude Thill was awarded the Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)! UCGIS is a nonprofit alliance of universities and research institutions that advances geographic information science through research, education, and policy, and the Merry Award is the only one of its awards devoted entirely to mentorship. The award recognizes individuals who offer counsel that advances their mentees’ careers, give their time generously to critique scholarship and teaching, publicly promote their mentees’ work, bring them into grants and publications, and support women and underrepresented groups in GIScience.

Dr. Thill, Knight Foundation Distinguished Professor, has graduated more than twenty doctoral students who are now active across academia and industry, and he continues to advise in the PhD programs in Geography, Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, Public Policy, and Epidemiology. His research spans transportation and mobility systems, urban analytics, and geospatial data science, and he is a Fellow of both the Regional Science Association International and the American Association of Geographers. He joins past Merry Award recipients including Keith Clarke, Sara McLafferty, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Chaowei Yang. Congratulations Dr. Thill!