Javier Martínez

Javier Martinez graduated as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Design (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) in Rosario, Argentina. In 1998, he graduated at ITC with an MSc degree in geo-information for urban planning (with distinction). Between 1999 and 2001, he worked in the Strategic Plan Rosario office (PER). In September 2001, he joined the PhD programme of the Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research (Nethur) at the Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. At Utrecht, he worked under the auspices of the PhD Pilot Programme of Utrecht University and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF). He received his PhD from the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University in September 2005.

Javier is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management at ITC. From the University of Twente he holds a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO). His research interests are social and urban indicators, quality of life, community quality of life monitoring, poverty, inequality mapping and GIS-based indicators development.

From 2010-until November 2014 he was Co-Coordinator of the Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South (N-AERUS). Since 2017, he is member of the board of directors of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS).