Gerardo Ezequiel Martín Carreño
Making hidden urban systems legible, from heat and material flows to the lived experience conventional maps leave out.
Professional experience
2026–present
Chief Technology Officer (Designate)
CommunityAI, London
Set the technology and data direction for an early-stage, privacy-safe community-intelligence proof of concept. Led an open-data rebuild with spatial validation, provenance, licence governance and reproducible release controls.
Sep 2023–May 2026
Full-Stack Spatial Data Scientist
TJX Europe, London
Delivered geospatial analysis for European markets and built cloud-native workflows connecting loyalty, footfall and demographic evidence.
Feb 2022–Feb 2023
Researcher and Spatial Data Analyst
Metabolism of Cities · Horizon 2020 CityLoops, from London
Co-developed and co-authored CityLoops' Urban Circularity Assessment method, adapting Eurostat economy-wide material-flow analysis to city scale for the Closing the Loop for Urban Material Flows project. Supported application across five pilots, built Sankey and CARTO outputs, and managed two analysts.
Jan 2020–Feb 2023
Freelance Spatial Data Analyst
Ecotopia Urbana · Canary Islands and Catalonia
Delivered freelance urban-sustainability consulting, municipal energy and emissions analysis, and spatial evidence for the Urban Agenda for the Canary Islands, alongside later research roles.
Mar 2021–Feb 2022
Spatial Data Scientist (Intern), then Junior Researcher
Metabolic · Horizon 2020 CENTRINNO, Amsterdam and London
Intern from March to September 2021, then Junior Researcher from October 2021 to February 2022. Co-authored CENTRINNO's Cartography Alpha Version for nine European pilots; modelled EU27 building stocks and flows across 144 typologies for European Commission JRC study JRC130992; and trained a Sentinel-1/LUCAS land-use classifier in Google Earth Engine for an EEA-commissioned project.
Jun 2019–Jan 2020
Spatial Data Analyst (Intern)
BCNecologia, Barcelona's urban ecology agency
Developed a spatial allocation model for Barcelona's home-care service within the Superilles Socials programme, combining service demand, neighbourhood indicators and the superblock grid.
Research outputs
2024–present
Shaping Cool Cities
Research output · UCL MSc thesis and ongoing public research
Combines thermal satellite data, 3D urban form, street networks and street-level computer vision across six European cities at 30 metre resolution, with validation in 600 metre spatial blocks.
2020
Social superblocks: from urban form to care delivery
Research output · Double-master thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Supervisors: Josep Mercadé Aloy and Albert Cuchí Burgos
Developed a genetic-algorithm method for contiguous home-care service zones in Barcelona, evaluated against demand, compactness and neighbourhood indicators.
Selected research projects
2022–2023
CityLoops: Urban Circularity Assessment
Co-author · Horizon 2020 grant 821033
Co-authored a city-scale material-flow and stock method with 18 indicators, designed for facilitated application in five pilots.
2021–2022
CENTRINNO: Urban Ecosystem Cartography
Co-author · Horizon 2020 grant 869595
Co-authored a nine-pilot cartography combining geospatial context, community and material-flow mapping.
Education and training
2022–2024
MSc Urban Spatial Science
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, The Bartlett, UCL · Distinction
Urban spatial analysis, spatial modelling and research methods.
2023 · attended three days
Summer school: Decarbonising Cities and the Social Cost of Climate Change (opens in a new tab)
MIT Senseable City Lab with AMS Institute, Amsterdam
Attended as a student for three days; completed course exercises in sensor deployment, mobile air-quality data collection and interactive web mapping.
Jul 2021
Summer school: The Circular City – Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
University of Amsterdam
Studied circular cities through applied research, industrial and urban ecology, consultancy, technological innovation and urban planning.
2020
Software Engineering Immersive
General Assembly
480-hour full-stack engineering programme.
2018–2019
MSc Sustainable Intervention in the Built Environment (MISMeC)
Vallès School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Urban and architectural approaches to sustainable transformation, including urban metabolic flows of energy, water and materials.
2017–2019
MSc Sustainability Science and Technology
University Research Institute for Sustainability Science and Technologies, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Interdisciplinary sustainability science and technology; graduated 8.29/10 on the Spanish scale.
2013–2017
BSc Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada
Environmental systems, ecology and urban-planning coursework.
Technical and research practice
Spatial and environmental analysis
Python, SQL, PostGIS, remote sensing, GeoAI, spatial validation, urban metabolism and climate adaptation.
Research software
TypeScript, React, Next.js, MapLibre, APIs, interactive maps and reproducible public evidence.
Critical spatial practice
Walking methods, critical cartography, sound, situated interfaces and practice-based research.
Selected talks and conversations
Mar 2026
Adapting Cities with AI (opens in a new tab)
Academy alumni panellist · Urban AI Conversation #49
Presented the urban-heat capstone developed through the URBAN AI Academy.
May 2025
From location analysis to full-stack spatial data science (opens in a new tab)
Speaker · Spatial Data Science Conference, Royal Geographical Society
Presented a cloud-native geospatial journey bridging site selection and customer insights.
Project case studies and their supporting documents are available in the work index.