Muki Haklay FAcSS is Professor of Geographical Information Science at the Department of Geography in University College London (UCL).
[2] He is recognised for his work in citizen science and on volunteered geographic information, including one of the earliest publication on OpenStreetMap,[4] and a study of the quality of OpenStreetMap data, demonstrating that it is of high quality.
[8][9] Haklay is the Co-director of the Extreme Citizen Science group at UCL, which is dedicated to the development of technologies and methodologies to allow any community, regardless of their literacy, to use scientific methods and tools to collect, analyse, interpret and use information about their area and activities.
[10] Haklay is the associate Editor-in-chief of the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.
Haklay has authored and co-authored over 250 academic papers[12] and several books including an important comprehensive book about Human-Computer Interaction in Geographic Information science (GIScience),[13] and books about citizen science and VGI including “European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information” (2016),[14] and Citizen Science[15] as well as conference presentations and other output including 5 edited books, 40 chapters in edited collections, 75 peer-review journal publications, and further 45 refereed conference papers.