Joris Tieleman, educated in GIS by the SPINlab during his VU-master studies in Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics (STREEM), has won the prestiguous national ESRI Young Scholar Award 2013 for his UvA master thesis in Human Geography entitled The Shifting Cityscape of Amsterdam.
The Esri Young Scholars Awards are an initiative of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc (Esri) to showcase the work of up-and-coming scholars in the field of geoinformatics.
Joris has used GIS to analyze gentrification patterns through relative housing prices.
SPINlab GIS-student awarded ESRI Young Scholars Award 2013