Dr Florian Fischer

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Florian Fischer is an urban researcher investigating at the intersection of urban sociology and digital technologies, particularly the Geospatial Web (Geoweb) and the Internet of Things (IoT). He completed his PhD at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, at the Institute for Geographic Information Science in Salzburg. There his main areas of research have been local search, location sharing and augmented reality gaming, with a particular focus on reception studies in the context of urbanism, recreation and tourism. He studied Urban Geography, Mobility Studies and Geoinformatics at the University of Munich (LMU) & University of Technology in Munich (TUM). His professional background is framed by various work experiences in risk assessment, transport planning, urban management and geo-marketing. Until October 2013, he was the project manager of the "Data and the City" research project at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.