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Vanessa Thomas (she/her)

Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

Vanessa Thomas is a settler Canadian and computer scientist currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. She has spent much of the past four years researching the design and deployment of digital technologies, as well as how those activities relate to public policy, public service provision, social justice, and environmental change.

Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Vanessa spent nearly a decade working as a software developer and service designer in the public and non-profit sectors. She was fortunate enough to find work in Canada, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the United States, and she had the privilege of volunteering with numerous exciting organisations, including the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Standby Task Force, and the University of Alberta’s WISEST programme.

Vanessa has been humbled to receive several academic and non-academic awards for her work. In addition to her “serious” endeavours, Vanessa co-runs the absurdist research project, Lickable Cities, and enjoys photoshopping moustaches onto traffic signs.

Sessions

Digital technologies, environmental change, and public policy

November 2, 2017  4:05 PM – 4:45 PM
In this talk, Vanessa will introduce how digital technologies affect the environment at every stage in their lifecycle. She links those effects to the things we do with our digital technologies, how we design them, and how our public policies influence the design, adoption, and end-of-life trajectory of our technologies. See more.
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