Engineering and doctoral degree, both from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, in Geodesy and Cartography with specialization in Geoinformatics. She researched and lectured at several universities – Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (2000-2007), University of Twente in the Netherlands (2007-2013) and São Paulo State University in Brazil (2014-2017). Currently works at Curtin University and FrontierSI, both in Australia.
Ivana’s research interests and expertise are in spatial data quality, metadata and provenance of spatial resources, and spatial knowledge infrastructures. In her teaching, she is an advocate and promotor of the OSGeo tools, currently helping students to develop open standards compliant geoweb applications. She volunteers at Geo4All and tutors and currently coordinates the UN OpenGIS PostGIS training.
Ivana co-chairs Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)’s Domain Working Group on Quality, and ISPRS ICWG IV/III, and represents Curtin University in the IT-004 Geographic information/Geomatics working group at Standards Australia and contributes to the work of Provenance Patterns Working Group of the Research Data Alliance.