Resume « Professor Marcus Foth

Professor Marcus Foth

BMultimedia Griffith, BCompSc(Hons) Germany, MA PhD QUT, JP(Qual.) Qld, MACM (Snr), FACS CP

m.foth@qut.edu.au

+61 7 3138 8772

https://www.vrolik.de/

2 George St, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia

Professor of Urban Informatics
QUT Design Lab
Queensland University of Technology

Current Appointments

Professor of Urban Informatics

2014 – ∞

QUT Design Lab

Honorary Professor

2016 – 2021

School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark

Visiting Professor

2019

Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Past Appointments

Founding Director, QUT Design Lab

2016 – 2017

School of Design, QUT

Research Leader (Design)

2015

School of Design, QUT

Professor in Residence

2013

Computer Science & Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland

Visiting Professor

2013

Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Fellow on Innovation & Cultural Industries

2011 – 2012

Australian Business Foundation, co-sponsored by the Aurora Foundation

Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow

2009 – 2014

Creative Industries Faculty, QUT

Smart Futures Fellow

2009 – 2011

Queensland Government, co-sponsored by National ICT Australia (NICTA)

Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow

2009 – 2011

Creative Industries Faculty, QUT

Visiting Fellow

2007

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK

ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (APD)

2006 – 2008

ARC Discovery DP0663854: New Media in the Urban Village

Education

PhD

2006

QUT, Australia

Towards a Design Methodology to Support Social Networks of Residents in Inner-City Apartment Buildings Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Initiative Scholarship [amongst the Top 10 PhD applicants] Scholarship from the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) Executive Dean’s Commendation for Higher Degree Research 2006

MA (Digital Media)

2002

QUT, Australia

Backing up the Smart State: E-Security in Queensland's Small and Medium Enterprises Grade Point Average (GPA): 7.00

BCompSc (Hons) (Media Informatics)

2002

Furtwangen University, Germany

Diplom-Informatiker (FH) Medieninformatik equivalent to Bachelor of Computer Science (First Class Honours) (Media Informatics) equivalent Grade Point Average (GPA): 6.79 Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement 2002, Mayor of Furtwangen, Germany

BMultimedia

2000

Griffith University, Australia

Grade Point Average (GPA): 6.63 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence 2000

Achievement Highlights

Fellow of the ACS

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) made me a fellow for “a sustained and distinguished contribution to the field of computer science. Foth is the international thought leader who coined the term urban informatics – now adopted by universities and industry worldwide. Foth’s work makes clear how academic research can successfully respond to societal challenges.”

Chair of DIS 2016

I was the conference chair of the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'16) conference that was held 4-8 June 2016 in Brisbane. Find out more at dis2016.org and follow @acmDIS.

h-index

My h-index is currently 40 with 5,000+ total citations (Google Scholar).

Tall Poppy

I received a Young Tall Poppy Science Award 2013 by the Australian Institute of Policy & Science (AIPS) recognising Queensland’s best scientists, combining world-class research with a passionate commitment to communicating science.

Top thinker & innovator

In 2011, I was inducted by the planning, design and development site Planetizen to the world’s top 25 leading thinkers and innovators in the field of urban planning and technology.