Dr Stef De Sabbata is an Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science at the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Digital Culture and the Turing Academic Liaison of the University of Leicester. She is the Chair of the Geographical Information Science Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. Her current research focuses on geographical artificial intelligence, including the development of spatially-explicit approaches to urban analytics and the study and use of foundation models in digital geographies and cultural analytics. She teaches data science, geographic artificial intelligence, information visualization and GIS.