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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

Eric Koomen 20th September 202017th July 2024 Crisis Management, 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

Eric Koomen 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

Eric Koomen 2nd May 202026th June 2023 Crisis Management, News, Research, Rural vitality 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

Eric Koomen 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

Eric Koomen 24th February 202026th June 2023 Digital Humanities, News 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

Eric Koomen 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

Eric Koomen 8th November 201926th June 2023 Research, Spatial Planning Read more

Spinlab research featured in the Bhutanese Cultural Atlas

During 2017 and 2018, the World Bank with the support from Spinlab researchers Eric Koomen and Eduardo Dias carried out the project entitled: “A National GIS-Based Cultural Landscape Database for Large Infrastructure Planning and Development in Bhutan”.  This project is part of the World Bank

Paolo Tasseron 24th June 201926th June 2023 Digital Humanities, Research Read more

SpinLAB & HERILAND

HERILAND is a pan-European research and training network on cultural heritage in relation to Spatial Planning and Design. The Vrije Universiteit collaborates with five other European universities in this network to devise and guide transdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and mainstreamed planning and

Paolo Tasseron 11th June 201926th June 2023 Digital Humanities, Research Read more

Spatial Data Science, Archaeology and Heritage Management conference

Spatial Data Science, Archaeology and Heritage Management conference

On Friday June 14, SPINlab’s researchers Rens de Hond, Maurice de Kleijn and Chris Lucas will attend a one-day conference at the Arcopolis Museum in Athens. The aim of this conference is to reflect on past and future applications of

Paolo Tasseron 4th June 201926th June 2023 Digital Humanities, Research Read more
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