ÖAW GIScience 'Young Researcher Award'

After being selected as 2018 recipient of the Austrian Academy of Science Waldo-Tobler 'Young Researcher Award', Pablo Cabrera Barona on Nov 16 received the award certificate during the Foromundo UNIGIS conference in Quito, Ecuador.

Pablo Cabrera-Barona accepting
the award from Prof Josef Strobl

Pablo Cabrera Barona had completed his PhD in 2017 at the University of Salzburg with a thesis on "A Multidisciplinary Spatial Framework for Health Inequalities Analysis with Emphasis on Deprivation and Healthcare Accessibility" and currently is working as a researcher and academic teacher at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, Quito in public health, statistics and public policy as well as planning.

Congratulations, and best wishes for a successful academic career addressing the timely theme of 'Quality of Life' at the intersections of Geography, Ecology, Public Policy and Health!