Meet our Team
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Igor Villareal Sarria
Director
Igor is the General Director of the MUBIL Foundation, a leading center for sustainable and smart mobility in the Basque Country.
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Zuriñe Valera Aranguren
Scientific Director
Zuriñe is particularly focused on collaborative and anticipatory governance, information transfer from population to policymakers, and building resilient communities. Her passion lies in finding innovative ways to use data to boost business growth and solve user’s needs.
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Giuseppe Foti
Innovation Scientist
Giuseppe Foti focuses on the development of decision support tools to assist public institutions, citizens and companies to move towards a more sustainable mobility. He has experience in basic and applied research, including modeling, simulation, smart sensing, and IoT.
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Iñigo Azcárate Urrutia
Research Assistant
Iñigo Azcárate is specialized in data science and machine learning for sustainable transportation planning and network science. He is actively involved in regional development initiatives and researches the human and socio-economic implications of mobility patterns.
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Nere Arroniz Aristi
PhD student
Nere studies the impact of freight transportation in Gipuzkoa, modeling the influence of the economic activity and analyzing the impact of SULP interventions.
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Joan Pau Gutiérrez
PhD student
Pau is focused on the transition to Smart Mobilities and accessibility, emphasizing sustainable mobility, new mobility models, and the socioeconomic impact in Gipuzkoa using simulation tools and data exploration.
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Naroa Coretti Sánchez
Research Scientist 1 at MIT Media Lab
Naroa Coretti's research is focused on designing future mobility modes and understanding their impacts through modeling and simulations. Her work aims to make future cities more walkable and human-centric by incentivizing increased use of active mobility modes. Her current research studies the effects of introducing autonomy on shared micro-mobility systems from the perspectives of vehicle design, fleet-level performance, and environmental impacts.
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Margaret Church
Program Manager at MIT Media Lab
Margaret is responsible for event management, fostering collaboration and research coordination. She works closely with the City Science Network, assisting in initiatives aimed at creating more livable and equitable communities. She works closely with the groups funders and stakeholders and with MIT Research Administration Services. Furthermore she contributes to and executes strategic planning and operations alongside Kent Larson and other City Science team members.
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Maitane Iruretagoyena
Technical Reserarcher at MIT Media Lab
Thinker, doer
Within the City Science group, she works on several projects creating visual media designs for art installations, identifying cost-efficient and lightweight infrastructure systems for the deployment in rapidly urbanizing areas, and product designer of hyper-efficient solutions in a micro-living environment.
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Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor
Principal Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab
Luis oversees the integration of the group's diverse research topics (energy consumption, city simulation, urban mobility, innovation district, and smart housing) in City Science Network of Collaborative Cities, to provide comprehensive solutions for urban and country challenges, in order to transform cities into more diverse and vibrant "human scale ecosystems."
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Kent Larson
Professor of the practice at MIT Media Lab
Kent Larson is an architect, MIT Professor of the Practice, director of City Science at the MITMedia Lab, and co-director of the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities based in Madrid. His research is focused on urban and architectural design, urban modeling and simulation, transformable micro-housing, living laboratories, ultralight autonomous mobility, and algorithmic dynamic zoning.
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