Angela Abascal

Description
Angela Abascal is an affiliate researcher at the University Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a PhD candidate at the University of Navarra (UNAV). She is an Architect and Urban planner scientist, focus on spatial deprivation within cities from Low- and Medium-Income Countries (mostly slums areas) in direct support of pro-poor and evidence-based policies. Angela’s research themes cover the study of deprivation levels in slums from an area-level characterization. She seeks to unveil a bridge between technical concepts of Earth Observation (EO) and their link with spatial analysis model to policy applications such as slum upgrading projects. Her expertise lies in techniques based on EO (e.g., processing of satellite imagery) to measure patterns of spatial deprivation through machine-leaning techniques. She is author of the urban regeneration project of the slum, Pamplona, in Lima, Perú, called “Pamplona sin límites/ Pamplona without limits” which has been recognized and awarded both nationally (Finalist at the XIII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Research Prize, 2016) and internationally (Honorable Mention in the International Competition for Urban Development and Social Inclusion CAF 2015).

Teaching
Angela is involved since 2015 in different teaching activities at UNAV:

• Urban planning (2015, 2018, 2019)
• GIS (2018-2022)

Research projects (selection)

2021-2021: PARTIMAP
2019-2021: SLUMAP

Publications