Spatial Information laboratory
Prof Henk Scholten, Scientific Director of the Spatial Information laboratory (SPINlab) at the Department of Spatial Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by Geospatial Media and Communications for the year 2015. The award
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
Uit 40 inzendingen zijn drie datasets genomineerd voor de Nederlandse Dataprijs voor humaniora en sociale wetenschappen, jaarlijks uitgereikt door DANS-KNAW. Het Geoplaza dataportaal van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is een van de drie genomineerden “De drie genomineerde datasets hebben stuk
Hoogleraar Ruimtelijke Informatica Henk Scholten is, samen met zes anderen, genomineerd voor de Huibregtsenprijs 2012 voor het beste Nederlandse onderzoek ‘dat opvallend wetenschappelijk vernieuwend is en dat uitzicht biedt op een waardevol maatschappelijk effect’. Henk Scholten heeft de nominatie in
Eveline van Leeuwen & Jasper Dekkers, assistant professors at the Department of Spatial Economics, were awarded the Best Paper Award for early career/doctoral students at the annual conference of the Regional Science Assoc. Intl – British & Irish section
EduGIS, the GIS portal for education in the Netherlands, has won the Societal Geo-Innovation Award 2009. EduGIS was chosen as the best from a selection of 24 projects.
Henk Scholten, scientific director of the SPINlab, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego from ESRI president Jack Dangermond.
We have to be careful with the remaining open areas in between the cities, therefore smart policies are essential. Eric Koomens dissertation, nominated for the universities social impact award, aims to provide policy makers with the relevant knowledge.