Dr. Ivana Ivánová

Principal Consultant – Geospatial

Dr Ivana Ivánová holds an engineering and doctoral degree, from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, in geodesy and cartography with a specialisation in Geoinformatics and Cadastre.

In 2006, Ivana received the PhD. thesis award: 2nd place for her PhD thesis on ‘Quality of geospatial datasets’ by the Rector of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Ivana has lectured and conducted research at several universities and across three continents – Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (2000-2007), University of Twente in The Netherlands (2007-2013), São Paulo State University in Brazil (2014-2017) and Curtin University (since 2017) in Australia. She worked as Research Fellow at CRC for Spatial Information (2017-2018) and is currently a Science Leader in Spatial Information Infrastructures at FrontierSI (since 2018) – both in Australia. Her research interests and expertise are in spatial data quality, data provenance and spatial knowledge infrastructures including cadastral systems. Her research has contributed to the integration of research outputs to deliver standards and tools in the semantic web space as part of creating a Spatial Knowledge Infrastructure for the future.

As a senior lecturer at Curtin University, Ivana teaches geoinformatics, spatial data quality and geodata distribution, and geodata management, analysis and modelling in the Bachelor of Surveying degree, and at a postgraduate level, undertakes lectures in the Geospatial Intelligence course. In her teaching, she is a strong advocate for OSGeo tools; helping students to develop open standards compliant geoweb applications. In addition, she volunteers at Geo4All, and coordinates the United Nations OpenGIS PostGIS training.

Ivana has many years of experience in standardization. From 2004 – 2007, she represented the Slovak national standardisation organisation in the CEN/TC 287 Geographic information’s Outreach Group. She has been overseeing and reviewing the adaptation of EN ISO 19100 series of norms into a national legal framework for geographic information. She currently represents Curtin University in IT-004 Geographic Information/Geomatics committee at Standards Australia. She is the project leader of ISO 19157-1 and ISO 19157-3 standards for geographic information quality. She co-convenes the Advisory Group for Ontology Maintenance at ISO/TC211 Geographic Information/Geomatics Technical Committee for Standardisation.

Ivana currently co-Chair’s the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)’s Data Quality Domain Working Group. She is also a Member of the Research Data Alliance, the Australian Linked Data Working Group, and a co-convenor of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) AU/NZ Data Quality Interest Group. Ivana also represents Curtin University as a member of the Executive Team in the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Academic Network.

Ivana is recognised internationally for her contribution to the advancement and improvement of surveying and spatial sciences and has been awarded a number of grants. Since 2017 she was awarded several research grants totalling above AUD $1million. Between 2012 and 2014, she was awarded several ‘Visiting Professor’ grants by various Brazilian research institutions; and a research grant from the Incentive fund of the Ambassadors network and the Department of Geo-Information Processing at ITC/UT.

Ivana has published a book on Data Quality in Spatial Datasets, and has authored over 60 Journal papers, book chapters, scientific articles and peer-reviewed conference papers. She is energetic, passionate and progressive about all things spatial. She also speaks eight languages – Slovakian, English, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, Spanish and Russian.