Gabriela Fernandez

Dr. Gabriela Fernandez is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geography and Principal Investigator at the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age at San Diego State University, CA. She is the Graduate Advisor of the Big Data Analytics Master of Science Program at SDSU. She received a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy.

She was a Ph.D. Visiting Student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, Building Technology, Urban Metabolism Group. She received a B.S. in Public Administration with an emphasis in City Planning and a Master of City Planning from the School of Public Affairs at SDSU. Her research interests include urban metabolism ideologies and material flow analysis of metropolitan cities. Identifying urban typologies and socioeconomic indicators in the urban context while promoting public policy, smart cities, nature-based solutions, circular economy methods, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and under-representative populations.

She is Co-Founder and Researcher at the Metabolism of Cities, a non-profit organization registered in Brussels, Belgium with data, tools, and publications related to urban metabolism studies. Dr. Fernandez is the Director of the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab at the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age at San Diego State University.