Six roles, one line of enquiry.

I grew up in the Canary Islands, a cluster of volcanic islands in the Atlantic where the relationship between people and a fragile environment is not abstract. Water, land and energy are visibly finite there, and you learn early that a place is a system with limits. That is where the question that still drives me began: how do human settlements sit inside the living systems they depend on, and how do we make that relationship legible enough to change it.

I trained first as an environmental scientist and urban planner in Granada, then took a Master's in Sustainability Science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and later a Master's in Urban Spatial Science at The Bartlett, UCL. Along the way I taught myself to build software properly, through a 480-hour immersive and years of shipping real tools. The result is a practice that sits where sustainability, spatial data, engineering and design meet. I read a city in layers, and the layers are not a metaphor: physical infrastructure (material and energy flows, the building stock, street and urban morphology), environmental factors (heat exposure, materials, biodiversity), and human behaviour (how people move, choose and gather, which I model with location analysis and gravity models). Holding those together, at the centre, is the relation between nature and society, because a map of a city is always, underneath, an argument about who and what it is for.

Government. At BCNecologia, Barcelona's urban ecology agency, I worked on the Social Superblocks model, which reorganises street space around residents instead of through-traffic.

Consultancy and research. At Metabolic in Amsterdam, splitting my time with London, and then from London with Metabolism of Cities in Belgium (2021 to 2023), I worked on urban circularity and material-flow analysis inside CENTRINNO, an H2020 project, and CityLoops, building interactive Sankey diagrams so that a city's metabolism, the materials moving through it, became something people could actually see and question.

Corporate. At TJX Europe (2023 to 2026) I led geospatial analysis for European markets. I built the cloud-native workflow on loyalty, footfall and demographics that automated site selection, catchment and cannibalisation analysis, turning a manual, slow process into a repeatable pipeline, and I presented that work at the Spatial Data Science Conference in London in 2025.

Founder and technical leadership. As CTO-designate at CommunityAI (2026 to now) I set technology strategy, data architecture and delivery for a small founding team, building systems that link public procurement to community value. Independently (2020 to 2023) I ran urban sustainability consulting on municipal energy and emissions, and contributed to the Urban Agenda for the Canary Islands.

For my Bartlett thesis, Shaping Cool Cities, I fused satellite imagery, three-dimensional building morphology, street networks and computer vision at 30-metre resolution across six European cities to map urban heat. The roles look varied, but they are one line of enquiry read from different chairs.

Alongside the analysis I keep a critical and radical cartographic practice, and I treat it as the same intelligence, not a hobby beside the work. It descends from a real tradition: the situationist dérive, and counter-mapping in the lineage of Denis Wood, who argued that every map is a proposition and never a neutral record. I walk with a camera, and I use ethnography, psychogeography and counter-cartography to interrogate my own methods, the projections, the categories, the data that was never collected. Upside Down World reworks the conventions of the map itself, inverting the orientation and hierarchy we treat as natural to ask why north sits on top and who that arrangement serves. Spatial Derive is a walking practice that records a route through camera and sound rather than coordinates. Invisible Borders looks at the lines we draw and inherit, and what they quietly enforce. This is where I let data sit next to emotion and intuition, and where I try to imagine grounded, fairer futures for cities rather than only describe the present. It is also where the technical work stays accountable to the people and the ecologies it claims to describe, because command of an instrument is what earns you the right to question it.

That instinct has civic roots. In Barcelona I organised around housing and campaigned on environmental issues, and I have carried out research for social movements. I keep that thread non-partisan and I keep it honest, but I do not hide it. No One Home grew directly out of it: a public instrument built with the London Renters Union that maps housing across 296 local authorities in England, so a national pattern becomes something anyone can open and read.

I build the instruments as well as the analysis. chrono.city, an archived prototype, ran entirely in the browser on Overture GeoParquet, DuckDB-WASM, PMTiles and MapLibre, so that heavy spatial data became something anyone could open in a tab. My working stack runs from Python, SQL, PostGIS, dbt and Snowflake through GeoParquet and DuckDB to TypeScript, React, Next.js, MapLibre and deck.gl. I care about the craft of the tool because the tool decides who gets to see the argument. I am at my best when a vague worry about heat, cost, emptiness or fairness needs to become something a team can see, measure and act on. That is the work, wherever it is commissioned from.