Hamish Gibbs

Hamish Gibbs is a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Esteban Moro in the Social and Urban Networks Group. His research focuses on identifying and mitigating biases in large-scale mobile phone data to enhance their reliability and effectiveness for monitoring human mobility. His work aims to improve the accuracy of mobility data as a tool for informing public policy decisions, with a focus on public health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hamish worked as a research assistant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He received his PhD from University College London where his thesis focused on addressing bias in large-scale mobility datasets, using mobility data for infectious disease modeling, and improving the privacy of mobility data used in public health emergencies.