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Research

Europe’s population density patterns mapped in Nature Communications

Europe’s population density patterns mapped in Nature Communications

Filipe Batista e Silva is a PhD candidate at SPINlab working for the European Union’s Joint Research Centre. Over the past years he worked on uncovering temporal changes in Europe’s population density patterns using a data fusion approach. He combines

Dewi Westra 20th September 202020th September 2020 Research, Spatial analysis, Spatial Planning Read more

Theory and Application of Dynamic Spatial Time Series Models

Today Bo Andrée defended his PhD dissertation in an online session that had a live stream on YouTube. The somewhat impersonal, digital setting did not inhibit a lively discussion. Bo’s thesis sets out to develop theory and methods to analyze

Dewi Westra 26th May 202029th May 2020 News, PhD research Bo, Spatial analysis Read more

Relation between air pollution and confirmed COVID-19 cases researched

SPINlab doctoral candidate Bo Andree recently led a study on the relationship between air pollution and COVID-19 incidences in the Netherlands for The World Bank. With the spread of the virus several hotspots emerged around the globe, a number of which coincided

Dewi Westra 2nd May 20206th May 2020 Crisis Management, News, Research, Rural vitality, Uncategorised Read more

Voor een appartement wordt meer betaald

Dat kopte de NRC op 27 april over een onderzoek dat mede is uitgevoerd door SPINlab onderzoekers Jip Claassens en Bart Rijken. In dit onderzoek werd een vergelijking gemaakt tussen de bereidheid om te betalen voor binnenstedelijke appartementen en suburbane

Dewi Westra 27th April 20206th May 2020 Research, Spatial Planning, Sustainable Urban Development Read more

3D archeologie in Rome

Spinlab onderzoeker Maurice de Kleijn (geospatiaal archeoloog (PhD), en Rens de Hond (promovendus-archeoloog, 3D-specialist) hebben in de afgelopen maanden bijgedragen aan de tentoonstelling Via Appia Revisited. Tijdreizen over de Eeuwige Snelweg.  Deze tentoonstelling is een tijdreis langs de beroemde antieke

Dewi Westra 24th February 20206th May 2020 Digital Humanities, News, Uncategorised Read more

PhD promotion Ting Zou

Last January Ting Zou successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the VU University. Her thesis Landscape service provisions and preferences on the urban–rural fringe ‘attempts to investigate changes in landscape service supply and people’s preferences towards these services over space

Dewi Westra 22nd January 202015th June 2022 News, PhD Research, Spatial Planning Read more

Space for Employment

SPINlab started a new research project on focussed on the transformation and expansion of formal business estates (bedrijventerreinen) with several societal partners. The new ‘ruimte voor werken’ (space for employment) project has been granted by NWO as part of the

Dirk Osse 8th November 20198th November 2019 Research, Spatial Planning, Uncategorised Read more

Urban densification session at RSA conference

VU-SPINlab organized a special session on urban densification at the Regional Studies Association’s winter conference in London last week. The central question was: Are cities dense enough? Several speakers from universities and the European Commission addressed this question, explaining regional

Paolo Tasseron 16th November 201826th November 2018 PhD research Jip, Spatial Planning Read more

Famine Action Mechanism

PhD candidate Bo Andrée is working on an ambitious high profile project at the World Bank: the Famine Action Mechanism (FAM). This project seeks to monitor and detect early signs of famine risk and link forecasts to prearranged and agreed

Paolo Tasseron 15th November 201826th November 2018 PhD research Bo, Spatial analysis Read more

Vasco Diogo defends his PhD

On October 12, Vasco Diogo has successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the VU University. His thesis ‘Agricultural land systems: Explaining and simulating agricultural land-use patterns’ reveals to what extent empirical and theory-based approaches of spatial analysis and land-use modelling

Paolo Tasseron 12th October 20188th November 2018 Land-Use Modelling, News, PhD Research Read more
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Latest updates

  • Digital twin Alkmaar 16th September 2022
  • Floating car data reveals travel time reliability 5th September 2022
  • Spatial data science en mobiliteit 24th June 2022
  • PhD promotion Filipe Batista e Silva 2nd June 2022
  • Webinar digital twins 17th June 2021
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