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Staff Profile

Kristina Wolf

Research Associate

  • Email: kristina.wolf@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Room 3.24, Cassie Building
    School of Engineering
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Research Assistant in Geospatial Analytics at the Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub.


Experiences:

Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Germany (2015-2019).

Student in Cooperative Education and Consultant at Deutsche Post DHL Group DHL (2012-2015).

Project work experience in Germany, the Netherlands, India, the USA, Malaysia and Ethiopia.


Qualifications:

PhD in Geospatial Systems with the Centre for Doctoral Training funded by UKRI’s EPSRC and Ordnance Survey at Newcastle University (2020-2024). Title: Geospatial data infrastructure for multi-agency incident management.

Research visit at the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) at The Ohio State University, USA (09/2022 - 12/2022).

MRes in Geospatial Data Science at Newcastle University (2019-2020).

Research semester at the Geographical Information Science & Transportation Lab at Tohoku University, Japan (09/2018-02/2019).

MSc in Management Information Systems at Paderborn University, Germany.

BSc in International Management for Business and Information Technology at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Germany (2012-2015).

Research

PhD research:

Following the systems engineering design, my work integrates (near-) real-time weather, hydrological and transport data to support multi-agencies in incident response and flood impact assessment.

Interests:

  • Flood impact analysis
  • Incident management
  • Systems engineering 
  • System of systems
  • Smart cities, digital twins

Projects:

  • I was a project officer for a UK Space Agency-funded project exploring the application of satellite imagery for emergency services during different stages of incident management.
  • I designed and developed a Highways Major Incident Dashboard prototype for a county council helping to respond to extreme weather events. For a utility network operator in the UK, I implemented a GIS-based dashboard to visualise various faults.
  • As part of a citizen science project, I developed a GIS application with analytical capabilities to assess the impact of earthquakes in different geographic locations.
Publications