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CURRICULUM VITAE

Daniel Arribas-Bel

Department of Geography and Planning
University of Liverpool
Roxby Building
74 Bedford St S
Liverpool
L69 7ZT
United Kingdom

D.Arribas-Bel@liverpool.ac.ukhttps://darribas.org

Education

2010
PhD Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).
Essays on the Distribution and Spatial Structure of Cities.
Supervisor: Fernando Sanz-Gracia.
Committee: Prof. Michael J. Batty (chair), Prof. Sergio J. Rey, Prof. Enrique Lopez Bazo, Dr. Rafael Boix Domenech.
2008
MSc. Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).
Kangaroos, Cities and Space: a First Approach to the Australian Urban System.
2006
BS. Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).

Current Academic Appointments

2022-
Professor in Geographic Data Science, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool.
2025-
Co-Director, Imago Smart Data Research UK Data Service for Imagery.

Honorary Appointments

2022-
Affiliate, Center for Open Geographical Science, San Diego State University.
2016-
Fellow, Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago.
2006-
Researcher, ADETRE Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza.
2020-2022
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
2018-2022
Affiliate, Center for Geospatial Sciences, University of California Riverside.
2017-2019
Member, Smart Cities UB Chair, Universitat de Barcelona.

Editorial Appointments

2019-
Co-editor, Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science
2025-
Editorial Board, Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2021-
Editorial Board, Journal of Geographical Systems
2019-
Editorial Board, Spatial Economic Analysis
2017-
Editorial Board, Geographical Analysis
2020-2024
Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A - Statistics in Society
2016-2022
Editorial Board, Transactions in GIS
2015-2018
Book Reviews Editor, Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science

Other Appointments

2021-
Steering committee, workstream coordinator Urban Analytics, The OECD Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis. OECD.
2016-2022
Programme Director, MSc in Geographic Data Science, University of Liverpool.
2017-2022
Chair, Quantitative Methods Research Group, Royal Geographical Society.

Prior Academic Appointments

2021-2025
Deputy Programme Director, Urban Analytics, The Alan Turing Institute.
2020-2023
ESRC Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute.
2018-2022
Senior Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool.
2015-2018
Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool.
2012-2016
Research Associate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University.
2014-2015
Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham (UK).
2012-2014
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
2011-2012
Postdoctoral Research Associate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University.
2006-2010
PhD Student, Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Zaragoza.

Honors and Awards

2026
Media Achievement Award for the GLaD podcast. American Association of Geographers. Joint with Rachel Franklin and Levi Wolf.
2024
Taylor & Francis Award for “excellence in the practice and promotion of teaching in higher education”. Royal Geographical Society.
2021
“Keeping the conversation going” - The use of Teams to sustain engagement in Geographic Data Science learning. Faculty Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Award Winner. Faculty of Science and Engineering. University of Liverpool.
2020
Spatial Data Scientist of the Year (inaugural). Spatial Data Science Conference (Online). CARTO.
2006
Premio extraordinario de licenciatura (Best student of the year in economics at the University of Zaragoza).

Research Income

Awards

2024
Economic and Social Research Council, UK Research and Innovation — “The SDR UK Imagery Data Service for Sustainability, Prosperity and Wellbeing (Imago)”. Smart Data Research UK Data Services. PI. 2024/29. £6,788,641
The Royal Society — “Learning from UK-France cross border railway transportation: border effect modelling and operational modes for the China-Laos Railway”. International Exchanges. CoI. £12,000
European Space Agency — “EuroFab: European Urban Fabric Classification Using Artificial Intelligence”. Tender. CoI. €250,000
European Space Agency — “EO Informed Agent Based Models for Digital Twins Applications”. Tender. CoI. €399,739
2023
Geospatial Commission — “National Land Data Programme Turing Demonstrator Extension”. Grant funding agreement with the Geospatial Commission (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology). PI. £99,955
2022
Geospatial Commission — “Using scenario-based land use modelling to identify the impacts from policy demands on land use change in a large conurbation”. Grant funding agreement for the National Land Data Programme - Land Use Demonstrator. PI. 2022/23. £182,329
The Alan Turing Institute — “The Science of Cities and Regions”. Out of budget process. Co-I. 2022/25. £2,996,046
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) — “Supporting Post Pandemic Recovery and Resilience through New Forms of Data”. ESRC AHRC UK South Korea SSH Connections Grants. CoI. 2022/23. £138,893.36
Fundación La Caixa — “Building and shaping cities for a healthy and prosperous future”. Social Research Grants. CoI. 2022/23. €100,000
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) — “ITINERANT: InequaliTies IN Experiencing uRbAn fuNcTion. Cuebiq data subscription”. CoI. 2022. £14,000
2021
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/The Alan Turing Institute — “InequaliTies IN Experiencing uRbAn fuNcTion (ITINERANT)”. PI. 2021/22. £96,624
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) — “Nitrogen Fixation in the Arctic Ocean”. Standard grant, NE/T001240/1. CoI. 2021/23. £733,137
2020
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) — “Learning an urban grammar from satellite data through AI”. Joint ESRC/The Alan Turing Institute Fellowship, ES/T005238/1. PI. 2020/23. £426,224
Maritime Research and Innovation UK (MarRI-UK) — “Assuring safe port navigation by applying machine learning (ML) to wave data for automated monitoring of changes in nearshore bathymetry”. CoI. 2020/21. £169,232
2019
University of Liverpool Industrial Strategy Fund — “Envisaging Liverpool's Future Digital City Region and Smart Governance”. Together with Prof. Alex Singleton (PI) and Prof. Mark Boyle (CoI). CoI. £23,000
Kings College London Faculty Education Fund — “Conjuring: Self-Contained Jupyter Hub for Teaching”. Together with Dr. Jon Reades (PI) and Dr. Steffen Zschaler (CoI). CoI. £4,975
2018
ODA Research Seed Fund, University of Liverpool — “Past and future of urban structures in Latin American cities”. PI. £8,887
2017
Santander Bank — “Travel Grant”. PI. £1,000
2014
FOSTER EU-funded (FP7) — “Workshop on Open Workflows”. Together with Thomas de Graaff. CoI. €2,150
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University — “Space in Hierarchical Linear Models using Python”. PI. $18,000
2007
Spanish Ministry of Education and Science — “University Staff Training Programme (in Spanish, “Formación de Personal Universitario”, FPU)”. Pre-Doctoral grant. 2007/10. €48,000

Projects (as researcher)

2009-2013
Migrant Diversity and Regional Disparity in Europe. Peter Nijkamp (PI) and Jacques Poot (Co-PI). Post-doctoral researcher (June, 2012-March, 2014). Sponsor: NORFACE research program on migration. €2,548,920.
2011-2013
Affordable Housing and Walkable Neighborhoods A National Urban Analysis. Julia Koschinsky and Emily Talen (PI and Co-PI). Researcher (January-May, 2012). Sponsor: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. US$500,000.
Flexible Geospatial Visual Analytics and Simulation Technologies to Enhance Criminal Justice Decision Support Systems. Luc Anselin and Serge Rey (PI and Co-PI). Researcher (January-December, 2011). Sponsor: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. US$1.4 million.
2010
Estrategia de Zaragoza y su entorno en el horizonte 2020. Scholar. Sponsor: Ebrópolis.
2009-2012
Aspectos teóricos y empíricos asociados al fenómeno de urban sprawl ECO2009-09332. Scholar. Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain. €42,900.
2007-2009
La distribución del tamaño de las ciudades: regularidades empíricas y modelos teóricos explicativos SEJ2006-04893. Scholar. Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Education, Government of Spain. €34,485.

Publications

Books

2023
Rey, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Wolf, L. J. “Geographic Data Science with Python”. https://geographicdata.science/book/

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2025
Murphy, J.; Mahabir, R.; Phinn, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Navigating coastal resilience: Exploring population density and coastal distance dynamics along the gold coast”. Global Challenges & Regional Science, 3, 100019. 10.1016/j.gcrs.2025.100019
2024
Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Decoding (urban) form and function using spatially explicit deep learning”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 112, 102147. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102147
Kenyon, G.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Robinson, C. “Extracting Features from Satellite Imagery to Understand the Size and Scale of Housing Sub-Markets in Madrid”. Land, 13, 575. 10.3390/land13050575
Kenyon, G.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Robinson, C. “Intra-urban house prices in Madrid following the financial crisis: an exploration of spatial inequality”. npj Urban Sustain, 4, 26. 10.1038/s42949-024-00161-0
2023
Calafiore, A.; Samardzhiev, K.; Rowe, F.; Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083231208
Salat, H.; Carlino, D.; Benitez-Paez, F.; Zanchetta, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Birkin, M. “Synthetic population Catalyst: A micro-simulated population of England with circadian activities”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083231203066
Murphy, J.; Plater, A.; Bird, C.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Spatial-temporal variability: characterisation of a beach system using high resolution radar data”. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1142077
Owen, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. “Tracking the Transit Divide: A Multilevel Modelling Approach of Urban Inequalities and Train Ridership Disparities in Chicago”. Sustainability, 15(11). 10.3390/su15118821
2022
Arribas-Bel, D.; Fleischmann, M. “Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function”. Habitat International, 128. 10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102641
Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Geographical characterisation of British urban form and function using the spatial signatures framework”. Scientific Data, 9, 546. 10.1038/s41597-022-01640-8
Rowe, F.; Calafiore, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Samardzhiev, K.; Fleischmann, M. “Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic using Meta-Facebook data”. Population, Space and Place, 29, e2637. 10.1002/psp.2637
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Local urban attributes defining ethnically segregated areas across English cities: A multilevel approach”. Cities, 132. 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103967
Samardzhiev, K.; Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Calafiore, A.; Rowe, F. “Functional signatures in Great Britain: A dataset”. Data in Brief, 43. 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108335
Comber, S.; Park, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Dynamic-IMD (D-IMD): Introducing activity spaces to deprivation measurement in London, Birmingham and Liverpool”. Cities, 127. 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103733
Chen, M.; Liu, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “Assessing the value of user-generated images of urban surroundings for house price estimation”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 226. 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104486
Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Murray, J.; Fleischmann, M. “Estimating generalized measures of local neighbourhood context from multispectral satellite images using a convolutional neural network”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 95. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101802
2021
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Trajectories of neighbourhood inequality in Britain: Unpacking inter-regional socioeconomic imbalances, 1971-2011”. The Geographical Journal. 10.1111/geoj.12420
Rey, S. J.; Anselin, L.; Amaral, P.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cortes, R. X.; Gaboardi, J. D.; Kang, W.; Knaap, E.; Li, Z.; Lumnitz, S.; Oshan, T. M.; Shao, H.; Wolf, L. J. “The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation”. Geographical Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12276
Arribas-Bel, D.; Green, M.; Rowe, F.; Singleton, A. “Open data products - A framework for creating valuable analysis ready data”. Journal of Geographical Systems. 10.1007/s10109-021-00363-5
Wolf, L. J.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Mobley, L. R. “On Spatial and Platial Dependence: Examining Shrinkage in Spatially Dependent Multilevel Models”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 10.1080/24694452.2020.1841602
Alharbi, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Coenen, F. “Sustainable Development Goal Relational Modelling and Prediction: Introducing the SDG-CAP-EXT Methodology”
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Cavazzi, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Sustainable urban development indicators in Great Britain from 2001 to 2016”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214, 104148. 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104148
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Chen, M. “Identifying and understanding road-constrained areas of interest (AOIs) through spatiotemporal taxi GPS data: A case study in New York City”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101592
Calafiore, A.; Palmer, G.; Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “A geographic data science framework for the functional and contextual analysis of human dynamics within global cities”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 85. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101539
2020
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A.; Dolega, L. “Using Convolutional Autoencoders to Extract Visual Features of Leisure and Retail Environments”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 202
Thompson, R. N.; Hollingsworth, T. D.; Isham, V.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Ashby, B.; Britton, T.; Challenor, P.; Chappell, L. H. K.; Clapham, H.; Cunniffe, N. J.; Dawid, A. P.; Donnelly, C. A.; Eggo, R. M.; Funk, S.; Gilbert, N.; Glendinning, P.; Gog, J. R.; Hart, W. S.; Heesterbeek, H.; House, T.; Keeling, M.; Kiss, I. Z.; Kretzschmar, M. E.; Lloyd, A. L.; McBryde, E. S.; McCaw, J. M.; McKinley, T. J.; Miller, J. C.; Morris, M.; O'Neill, P. D.; Parag, K. V.; Pearson, C. A. B.; Pellis, L.; Pulliam, J. R. C.; Ross, J. V.; Tomba, G. S.; Silverman, B. W.; Struchiner, C. J.; Tildesley, M. J.; Trapman, P.; Webb, C. R.; Mollison, D.; Restif, O. “Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1932), 20201405. 10.1098/rspb.2020.1405
Puente-Ajovín, M.; Ramos, A.; Sanz-Gracia, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “How sensitive is city size distribution to the definition of city? The case of Spain”. Economics Letters, 197. 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109643
Franklin, R.; Houlden, V.; Robinson, C.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Delmelle, E. C.; Demšar, U.; Miller, H. J.; O'Sullivan, D. “Who Counts? Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human Geography”. The Professional Geographer
Chen, M.; Fahrner, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. “A reproducible notebook to acquire, process and analyse satellite imagery”. REGION, 7(2), R15-R46. 10.18335/region.v7i2.295
Olson, A. W.; Zhang, K.; Calderon-Figueroa, F.; Yakubov, R.; Sanner, S.; Silver, D.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Classification and Regression via Integer Optimization for Neighborhood Change”. Geographical Analysis
Chen, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “Quantifying characteristics of the local urban environment through geotagged Flickr photographs and image recognition”. International Journal of Geo-Information, 9, 264. 10.3390/ijgi9040264
Lumnitz, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cortes, R. X.; Gaboardi, J. D.; Griess, V.; Kang, W.; Oshan, T. M.; Wolf, L.; Rey, S. “splot - visual analytics for spatial statistics”. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(47), 1882. 10.21105/joss.01882
2019
Arribas-Bel, D.; Garcia-Lopez, M.; Viladecans-Marsal, E. “Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm”. Journal of Urban Economics. 10.1016/j.jue.2019.103217
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A.; Dong, G.; Dolega, L. “Building Hierarchies of Retail Centers Using Bayesian Multilevel Models”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 10.1080/24694452.2019.1667219
Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Geographic Data Science”. Geographic Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12194
Stubbings, P.; Peskett, J.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “A Hierarchical Urban Forest Index Using Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning”. Remote Sensing, 11(12). 10.3390/rs11121395
Arribas-Bel, D. “A course on Geographic Data Science”. The Journal of Open Source Education, 2(14), 42. 10.21105/jose.00042
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Machine learning innovations in address matching: A practical comparison of word2vec and CRFs”. Transactions in GIS, 23(2), 334-348
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. “A principal component analysis (PCA)-based framework for automated variable selection in geodemographic classification”. Geo-spatial Information Science. 10.1080/10095020.2019.1621549
Davies, A. E.; Dolega, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Buy online collect in-store: Exploring grocery click & collect using a national case study”. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management
Chen, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “Understanding the dynamics of urban areas of interest through volunteered geographic information”. Journal of Geographical Systems
Dong, G.; Alexiou, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Wolf, L. “Inferring neighbourhood quality with property transaction records by using a locally adaptive spatial multi-level model”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
2018
Arribas-Bel, D.; Reades, J. “Geography and Computers: Past, present, and future”. Geography Compass
Arribas-Bel, D.; Bakens, J. “Use and Validation of Location-Based Services in Urban Research: An Example with Dutch Restaurants”. Urban Studies, 56(5), 868:884
Arribas-Bel, D.; Bakens, J. “Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/2399808318783748
2017
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. “Characterizing the Spatial Structure(s) of Cities 'on the fly': the Space-Time Calendar”. Geographical Analysis, 50(2), 162-181. 10.1111/gean.12137
Gerritse, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Concrete agglomeration benefits: do roads improve urban connections or just attract more people?”. Regional Studies, 52(8), 1134-1149
Wolf, L.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Stochastic Efficiency of Bayesian MCMC in Spatial Econometric Models: An Empirical Comparison”. Geographical Analysis, 50, 97-119. 10.1111/gean.12135
Arribas-Bel, D.; Patino, J.; Duque, J. “Remote sensing-based measurement of Living Environment Deprivation: Improving classical approaches with machine learning”. PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0176684
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “'Waiting on the train': The anticipatory (causal) effects of Crossrail in Ealing”. Journal of Transport Geography, 64, 13-22
2016
Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P.; Poot, J. “How diverse can measures of segregation be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model”. Environment and Planning A, 48(10), 2046-2066
Folch, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Koschinsky, K.; Spielman, S. “Spatial Variation in the Quality of American Community Survey Estimates”. Demography, 53(5), 1535-1554
2015
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P. “Cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz”. Environment and Planning C -- Government and Policy, 33, 1-17
Arribas-Bel, D.; Gerritse, M. “From manufacturing belt, to rust belt, to college country - A Visual Narrative of the US Urban Growth”. Environment and Planning A, 47(6), 1241-1253
Arribas-Bel, D.; Ramos, A.; Sanz Gracia, F. “The size distribution of employment centers within the U.S. Metropolitan Areas”. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 42, 23-39
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Steenbruggen, J. “Cyber Cities: Social Media as a Tool for Understanding Cities”. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 8(3), 231-247
2014
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz Gracia, F. “The Validity of the Monocentric City Model in a Polycentric Age: US Metropolitan areas in 1990, 2000 and 2010”. Urban Geography, 35(7), 980-997
Arribas-Bel, D. “Accidental, Open and Everywhere: Emerging Data Sources for the Understanding of Cities”. Applied Geography, 49, 45-53
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Migrant Entrepreneurs as Urban 'Health Angels' -- Contrasts in Growth Strategies”. International Planning Studies
2013
Arribas-Bel, D.; Schmidt, C. R. “Self-organizing maps and the US urban spatial structure”. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2, 362-371
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P. “Benchmarking of World cities through self-organizing maps”. Cities, 31, 248-257
Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Spatial fixed effects and spatial dependence”. Papers in Regional Science, 92(1), 3-17
Amaral, P. V.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Testing for spatial error dependence in probit models”. Letters in Spatial Resource and Sciences, 6(2), 91-101
2012
Arribas-Bel, D.; Koschinsky, J.; Amaral, P. V. “Improving the Multi-Dimensional Comparison of Simulation Results: A Spatial Visualization Approach”. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 5(2), 55-63
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Smart Cities Perspective - a Comparative European Study by Means of Self-Organizing Maps”. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 25(2), 229-246
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz-Gracia, F.; Ximenez-de-Embún, D. P. “Kangaroos, cities and space: a first approach to the Australian urban system”
Kourtit, K.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P. “High Performers in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands”. The Annals of Regional Science, 48(2), 501-527
2011
Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P.; Schoelten, H. “Multidimensional urban sprawl in Europe: a self-organizing map approach”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35(4), 265-275
Rey, S.; Anselin, L.; Folch, D. C.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Sastré Gutiérrez, M. L.; Interlante, L. “Measuring Spatial Dynamics in Metropolitan Areas”. Economic Development Quarterly, 25(1), 54-64

Conference Proceedings

2026
Wagg, D.; Malleson, N.; Beltran, A.; Tipuric, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Using Earth Observation Informed Agent-Based Models to build a Scenario Planning Digital Twin for Local Energy Policies”. 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-22325
2021
Alharbi, Y.; Coenen, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring and Forecasting using Time Series Analysis”
2020
Alharbi, Y.; Coenen, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Sustainable Development Goal Relational Modelling: Introducing the SDG-CAP Methodology”
Alharbi, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Coenen, F. “Sustainable Development Goal Relational Modelling: Introducing the SDG-RMF Methodology”
2019
Alharbi, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Coenen, F. “Sustainable Development Goal Attainment Prediction: A Hierarchical Framework using Time Series Modelling”

Other academic articles

2026
Arribas-Bel, D.; Franklin, R. “Satellite Salvation? Why satellite imagery is (part of) the answer to our urban data needs”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 53(5). 10.1177/23998083261456945
Beecham, R.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Open spatial science as routine practice: Urban Data/Code contributions from GISRUK 2024”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 53(3). 10.1177/23998083261431404
2025
Arribas-Bel, D.; Metzler, B.; Lynn, S. “AI in land use”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 52(2). 10.1177/23998083251316384
2024
Malleson, N.; Franklin, R.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cheng, T.; Birkin, M. “Digital twins on trial: Can they actually solve wicked societal problems and change the world for better?”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(6), 1181-1186. 10.1177/23998083241262893
Arribas-Bel, D.; Fleischmann, M. “In praise of (spatial) bundles”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083231224151
2021
Arribas-Bel, D.; Alvanides, S.; Batty, M.; Crooks, A.; See, L.; Wolf, L. “Urban data/code: A new EP-B section”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(9), 2517-2519. 10.1177/23998083211059670
2020
Rowe, F.; Maier, G.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rey, S. “The Potential of Notebooks for Scientific Publication, Reproducibility and Dissemination”. REGION, 7(3), E1-E5. 10.18335/region.v7i3.357
2018
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. “Big Urban Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Geographical Analysis”. Geographical Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12157
2017
Harris, R.; O'Sullivan, D.; Gahegan, M.; Charlton, M.; Comber, L.; Longley, P.; Brunsdon, C.; Malleson, N.; Heppenstall, A.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Evans, A. “More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 44(4), 598-617
2016
Arribas-Bel, D. “London: The Information Capital: 100 Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You View the City. James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. London: Particular Books (Penguin), 2014.”. Papers in Regional Science, 96(1), 223-224
Arribas-Bel, D. “Geocomputation: A Practical Primer, edited by Chris Brunson and Alex Singleton.”. Journal of Regional Science, 56(1), 176-178
2015
Arribas-Bel, D. “Review of Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS, by Patrice Laglois”. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 42, 564-567
Arribas-Bel, D. “The spoken postcodes”. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2(1), 457-460
Arribas-Bel, D.; Graaff, T. “WooW-II: Workshop on open workflows”. REGION, 2(2), R1-R2
2014
Arribas-Bel, D. “Spatial Data, Analysis, and Regression - A mini course”. REGION, 1(1), R1
2012
Arribas-Bel, D.; Gerritse, M. “Monocentricity? Commuting flows visually.”. Featured Graphic, Environment and Planning A, 44(9), 2041-2042

Book chapters

2024
Arribas-Bel, D.; Graser, A. “Geographic data science: a manifesto”
2023
Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F.; Chen, M.; Comber, S. “An image library: The potential of imagery in (quantitative) social sciences”. 10.4337/9781789903942
2020
Boeing, G.; Arribas-Bel, D. “GIS and Computational Notebooks”. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2021 Edition). 10.22224/gistbok/2021.1.2
2018
Arribas-Bel, D. “Statistics, Modelling, and Data Science”. Digital Geographies, 129-140. SAGE
de Graaff, T.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Ozgen, C. “Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity”. Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, 211-231. Springer, Cham
2017
Arribas-Bel, D.; de Graaff, T.; Rey, S. “Looking at John Snow's cholera map from the XXIst century: a practical primer on Reproducibility and Open Science”. Regional Research Fontiers
2013
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. “The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis among Migrant Entrepreneurs.”. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies

Other

2025
Arribas-Bel, D. “El papel de la geografía en la revolución de datos: ejemplos desde la ciencia de datos geográficos”. Geografía, cambio global y vulnerabilidad territorial. Herramientas para el conocimiento de un mundo en transformación permanente. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain). http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/42264
2024
2021
Darlington-Pollock, F.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. “What do 'left behind' areas looklike over time?”. https://localtrust.org.uk
2019
Arribas-Bel, D. “Imagery: A better 'picture' of the city”. https://cp.catapult.org.uk/2019/12/13/imagery-a-better-picture-of-the-city/
Rowe, F.; Patias, N.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Policy Brief: Neighbourhood Change and Trajectories of Inequality in Britain, 1971-2011”. UK2070 Commission
Arribas-Bel, D. “Six 15-minute walks capture the diversity, history of Houston neighborhoods”. Urban Edge Blog. Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University. https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2019/04/08/maps-six-15-minute-walks-capture-diversity-history-houston-neighborhoods
2015
Arribas-Bel, D. “Does Twitter make us view cities differently?”. University of Birmingham Tumblr blog. May 15th, 2015. http://unibirmingham.tumblr.com/post/119013810163/does-twitter-make-us-view-cities-differently
2014
Arribas-Bel, D. “Open Workflows for Open Regional Science”. NARSC Newsletter. Issue 1, No.2, June. http://www.narsc.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NARSCNewsJune2014-Final2.pdf
2013
Arribas-Bel, D. “Cultural diversity and increased urban buzz”. Migration: New Developments. Spring 2013. NORFACE Research Programme on Migration. http://www.norface-migration.org/files/NORFACE_2013_single.pdf

Working Papers

2013
Arribas-Bel, D.; Florax, R. “Heterogeneity and Dependence in Geo-Referenced Micro Data: Random Effects vs True Contagion”
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz Gracia, F. “On the existence of agglomeration shadows at the metropolitan level”
2012
Anselin, L.; Amaral, P. V.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Technical Aspects of Implementing GMM Estimation of the Spatial Error Model in PySAL and GeoDaSpace”. https://geodacenter.asu.edu/drupal_files/sperrorgmm_wp2.pdf

Research Visits

2023
CEMFI. Madrid (Spain). External Faculty.
2022
CEMFI. Madrid (Spain). External Faculty.
2021
CEMFI. Madrid (Spain). External Faculty.
2019
Research in Spatial Economics (Rise) group. Universidad EAFIT. Medellin (Colombia). Visitor.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE, National Institute for Space Research). São José dos Campos (Brazil). Visitor.
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA, Institute of Applied Economic Research). Brasilia (Brazil). Visitor.
Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da UFMG (CEDEPLAR, Centre for Development and Regional Planning). Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Visitor.
2018
Center for Geospatial Sciences, University of California, Riverside. Riverside (USA). Visitor.
2017
Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago. Chicago (USA). Visitor.
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University. Providence (USA). Visitor.
2015
Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University. Houston (USA). July-August. Visiting scholar.
2014
Department of Economics, University of Houston. Houston (USA). June-August. Visiting scholar.
2011
Department of Spatial Economics, The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam (The Netherlands). July-August. Visiting researcher.
2010
Department of Spatial Economics, The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam (The Netherlands). September. Visiting PhD student.
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ (USA). March-May. Visiting PhD student.
2009
Department of Spatial Economics, The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam (The Netherlands). September-December. Visiting PhD student.
2008-09
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ (USA). August-June. Visiting PhD student.

Invited Lectures

Keynote speeches

2026
“Understanding Cities with New Forms of Data”. SPACERAISE summer school, Grand Sasso Science Institute. L'Aquila (Italy)
2022
“Making it easy for Regional Scientists to consider (urban) form & function”. Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture. Regional Science Association International, British and Irish Section. July. Stirling (UK)
2021
“El papel de la Geografía en la revolución de datos: ejemplos desde la Ciencia de Datos Geográficos”. XXVII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Geografía. December. Tenerife (Spain)
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences. November. Mexico
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. Geoinformation Science Symposium (virtual). October. Indonesia

Seminars

2026
“Embeddings for the rest of us”. Universidad de Zaragoza. June
“Making satellites more useful, usable and used in social research and policy”. Universidad de Zaragoza. June
“Making satellites more useful, usable and used in social research and policy”. University of Leeds. June
2025
“The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking”. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing (China). May
“The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking”. Southwest University. Chongqing (China). May
2023
“Decoding urban form and function in Great Britain”. IOER Forum. Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development. November
“Decoding urban form and function in Great Britain”. Economic Geography and Spatial Economics Seminar Series. London School of Economics. October
“Urban Grammar - Decoding the socio-economic landscape with satellite imagery”. Workshop on Migration, Climate Change and Economic Development. Universidad de Zaragoza. September
“Decoding the Socio-Economic landscape with satellite imagery”. Bank of England. July
“Learning from Deep Learning - Lessons from using computer vision to identify (urban) form and function in open data satellite imagery”. AI and Sustainable Cities workshop. The Alan Turing Institute, UCL & QMUL workshop. June
“Measuring (even) better the Urban-Rural continuum”. JRC Webinar Series. Future of Cities. Online. April
“Developing detailed, consistent and scalable characterisations of urban form & function”. Masters Gathering. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan (online). April
2022
“Making it easy for regional scientists to consider (urban) form & function”. Economic Data Science Seminar Series. Office for National Statistics. November
“Open by Default - Developing reproducible, computational research”. Royal Statistical Society, Merseyside chapter. Session on open data sources. June
“Urban Analytics@Turing”. Brown bag series. Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. University of Chicago. May
2021
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. Diplomado en Análisis de Datos para las Ciencias Sociales (remote). Universidad de Caldas. Colombia
“Geographic Data Science: why, what, how”. HM Land Registry Data Science seminars
“(Urban) Form & Function in Great Britain”. Urban Analytics monthly meetup (remote). Alan Turing Institute (UK)
“Infusing our understanding of cities with Geographic Data Science”. (remote). ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
“Spatial Signatures -- Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function”. (remote). ESRC Urban Big Data Centre seminar series. University of Glasgow. Glasgow (UK)
2020
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. MSc in Economics seminar, Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). Online. November
“Urban Analytics - Maximising the value of big data for enhanced urban policy making”. Building Smart Cities with Citizens and for the Public Good: A Symposium. Organised by the Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool. Liverpool. March
2019
“Using New Forms of Data & Machine Learning to Understand Cities”. Innovation LAB seminar series, OECD. Paris (France). December
“Images as (policy-ready) data”. Acto Anual de Política Regional y Fondos Europeos en España (Annual Event for Regional Policy and European Funds in Spain). Madrid (Spain). November
“Building(s and) Cities”. MacArthur Foundation workshop on Urban Modelling & Complexity Science. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. London (UK). September
“Infusing Urban Analytics with Geographic Data Science”. Urban Analytics at the interface between environment, human health and behaviour workshop. Tongji University (China). July
“Urban Analysis with Geographic Data Science and New Forms of Data”. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Brazil). March
“Infusing Urban and Regional Policy with Geographic Data Science”. Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA) (Brazil). March
“Infusing Urban and Regional analysis with Geographic Data Science”. CUSP Seminars, King's College London. London (UK). January
“Accessing & Visualizing Satellite Data”. Workshop on Ocean and Coastal Monitoring and Modelling for Coastal Zone Management. Commonweath Marine Economies Programme. St. Vincent & Grenada. January
2018
“Infusing Urban and Regional analysis with Geographic Data Science”. University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada). November
“Infusing Urban & Regional work with New Forms of Data”. OECD, Paris (France). September
“Geographic Data Science - What, why, and how”. 300,000Km/s, Barcelona (Spain). March
“An Updatable Index of Neighborhood Desirability”. IEB Seminars, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). February
“New methods for new data? A few urban examples”. Data Science Seminars. ShopDirect, Liverpool. January
2017
“Towards a Geographic Data Science that Works for Everyone”. Spatial Data Science Conference. CARTO HQ, Brooklyn. December
“The Spatial Structure of Cities Through The Lens Of New Forms Of Data”. CASA Seminars. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. University College London. November
“Looking at Cities with New Lenses”. Roxby Centenary Lecture, University of Liverpool. November
“Bringing new forms of data to the study of cities”. UK Data Service Webinar. February
“Remote Sensing-Based Measurement of Living Environment Deprivation - Improving Classical Approaches with Machine Learning”. GVC/City REDI Seminar Series, University of Birmingham. (Birmingham, UK). February
“Bringing New Forms of Data to the Study of Cities”. Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan). January
2016
“Smart Cities - Examples, Opportunities and Challenges from Urban Research”. Smart Cities: myth or reality? event held by the Telefonica Chair on Smart Cities and the IEB. University of Barcelona (Spain). January
2015
“The (geo)data revolution and the need for (Geographic) Data Science”. Remote lecture for the postgraduate course Research Design in Urban Science, coordinated by Professor Marina Alberti. University of Washington (US). October
“New approaches to measure the spatial structure(s) of cities”. Geospatial Big Data seminars. University College London (UK). March
2014
“Seeing cities through the lens of new (big) data -- Some examples”. University of Liverpool (UK). December
“Seeing cities through the lens of new (big) data”. Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Nuremberg (Germany). September
“Spatial Analysis & Spatial Regression”. Third year module in the Bachelor in Economics' Minor in Geography. Two lectures (3h). University of Utrecht (Netherlands). February
“New data & old Regional Science -- Some examples”. GeoDa Center Brownbag series, Arizona State University (USA). February
“Agglomeration Lights and Shadows within metropolitan areas -- US Cities in 2000”. Department of Global Economics & Management internal seminars, University of Groningen (Netherlands). February
2012
“GeoDaSpace: advanced spatial econometrics made easy”. V Spatial Econometrics Seminar in honour of Jean Paelink, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). October
“An introduction to R (with Nick Malizia)”. Graduates for Integrative Society and Environment Research (GISER), Arizona State University. March
2011
“Studying urban polycentricity in the US with spatial analysis methods”. European Investment Bank. July
2007
“45 minutes on Geographical and Urban Economics”. Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. December

Conferences and Events

Organization

2025
The Interesting Data and Methods Sessions. Series of sessions organised with Rachel Franklin, Elizabeth Delmelle, and Isabelle Nilsson at the AAG Annual Meeting. Detroit (US). April
2023
The Future of Urban Analytics. Series of sessions organised between the Alan Turing Institute, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Leeds at the AAG Annual Meeting
2022
Workshop: Urban Analytics in Policymaking. OECD Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis. Online
2021-2023
Spatial Analytics and Data - The Interviews. Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society and The Alan Turing Institute. With Rachel Franklin and Levi Wolf
2018
The Potential of Satellite Imagery for Studying Human Activity. workshop held at the University of Liverpool. Co-organised with Francisco Rowe. June
2017
Geographic Data Science. special sessions and panel for the Annual Meeting of the AAG , held in Boston, MA. Co-organized with Mark Birkin, Marynia Kolak, Nick Malleson, Alex Singleton and Seth Spielman
2016
Big Data for Urban and Regional Analysis. special sessions for the Annual Meeting of the AAG , held in San Francisco, CA. Co-organized with Emmanouil Tranos
2014/15
Big Data Lunch Seminars. co-organized with Emmanouil Tranos and University of Birmingham Institute of Advanced Studies
2015
Big Data for Urban and Regional Analysis. special sessions for the Annual Meeting of the AAG , held in Chicago, IL. Co-organized with David Folch and Emmanouil Tranos
2014
Applications of new sources of (big) data in Regional Science. special sessions for the 61st NARSC Meetings, held in Washington, DC. Co-organized with David Folch
Big Data Day. co-organized with Emmanouil Tranos and University of Birmingham Institute of Advanced Studies. September

Participation

2025
Annual Meeting of the AAG, Detroit (USA); GISRUK, Bristol (UK); Living Planet Symposium, Vienna (Austria)
2023
Annual Meeting of the AAG, Denver (USA)
2021
International Seminar on Urban Form. Glasgow (UK, online)
2018
Annual Meeting of the AAG, New Orleans (USA)
2017
Annual Meeting of the AAG, Boston (USA); GIS Research UK, GISRUK, Manchester (UK)
2016
Annual Meeting of the AAG, San Francisco (USA); Workshop on Big Data and Transport organized by the Joint Research Centre of the European Comission, Sevilla (Spain); Convening on Urban Data Science - University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
2015
NARSC Meetings, Portland (OR, USA); GIS Research UK - GISRUK, Leeds (UK); Annual Meeting of the AAG, Chicago (USA)
2014
Western Regional Science Association Meeting, San Diego (USA); Tinbergen Institute Workshop, Amsterdam (NL); Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA); Department of Economics, University of Houston (USA), NARSC Meetings
2013
Western Regional Science Association Meeting, Santa Barbara (USA); NORFACE Migration Conference, London (UK); Tinbergen Institute Workshop, Amsterdam (NL); ERSA Congress, Palermo (Italy); Dutch-Israeli Workshop on Regional-Science, Groningen (NL); 5th. NORFACE Migration Conference, Berlin (Germany); NARSC Meetings, Atlanta (USA)
2012
Spatial Econometrics Association World Conference, Salvador (Brazil); ERSA Congress, Bratislava (Slovakia); NORFACE “Increasing Heterogeneity in the Workforce and its Impact”, Nuremberg (Germany)
2011
Eureka Seminar, VU University, Amsterdam (NL); ERSA Congress, Barcelona (Spain); NARSC Meetings, Miami (USA); Tinbergen Institute Complex-City Workshop, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
Workshop on Urban Dynamics URBANICS, Marbella (Chile); ERSA Congress, Jonköping (Sweden); Workshop Urban Systems 2.0., Delft (NL); FOSS4G, Barcelona (Spain)
2009
Spatial Econometrics Association World Conference, Barcelona (Spain); NARSC Meetings, San Francisco (USA)
2008
RESER, Sttutgart (Germany); Spatial Econometrics Association World Conference, Brooklyn (USA)

Teaching

Postgraduate

Geographic Data Science (2015-2020). https://darribas.org/gds_course
Web Mapping and Analysis (2020-). https://darribas.org/wmn
Spatial Modelling for Data Scientists (2021). https://gdsl-ul.github.io/san
Data Science Studio (2018-). https://darribas.org/data_science_studio
Spatial Analysis (2015-20). https://darribas.org/spa_notes

Undergraduate

Geographic Data Science (2015-). https://darribas.org/gds_course
Virtual Field Class (2021-)
Field Class Year 3, Barcelona (2015-20)
Geography undergraduate dissertation supervisions (2014-2020)
Field Class Year 1, Shropshire (2014)
Geography Year 1 and 2 Tutorials (2014-2020)
Research Methods for Dissertations (2014)

Workshops and Short Courses

2026
“Embeddings for the rest of us”. SPACERAISE summer school, Grand Sasso Science Institute. L'Aquila (Italy)
2023
“Geographic Data Science for Applied Economists”. (remote). 15h course. CEMFI. Madrid (Spain). November
“Urban Analytics”. (remote). 4h session at the MSc Engineers for Smart Cities. Université Côte D'Azur. November
“Spatial autocorrelation”. Spatial Data Science Bootcamp (with Levi Wolf). CARTO. London. February
2022
“Super-Charging your (Regression) Model with Space and Geography”. Together with Pedro Amaral. Center for Spatial Data Science. University of Chicago. May
2021
“Python for Geographic Data Science”. Urban Systems Lab. Imperial College London. 2-day course
“Geographic Data Science for Regional Economists”. (remote). 8h course. Universitat de València. Valencia (Spain)
“Geographic Data Science for Applied Economists”. (remote). 15h course. CEMFI. Madrid (Spain)
2020
“Enriching your Analytics with Geographic Data Science”. (remote). 2h workshop. Spatial Data Science Conference (online). CARTO
“Geographic Data Science for Regional Scientists”. (remote). 2h workshop. Spanish Association of Regional Science (online) Conference
“Data Science studio in Python”. (remote). 8h workshop. CDRC. UK
“Data Science studio in Python”. (remote). 8h workshop. Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona (Spain)
2019
“Introduction to machine learning in Python”. One-day workshop. OECD. Paris (France)
“R & Py Spatial Analysis workshop”. One-day workshop, jointly taught with Roger Bivand. European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography. Luxemourg
2018
“Geographic Data Science in Python”. Three-day course. University of Toronto (Toronto). November
“Geographic Data Science in Python”. Three-day course. University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg). September
“Introduction to Python for Data Science”. Two-day course. OECD (Paris). September
“Python for Geographic Data Science”. Two-day course for the Q-Step Programme. University College London (UK). June
“Introduction to Python for Geographic Data Science”. One-day course for the Consumer Data Research Centre. University of Leeds (UK). May
2017
“Geographic Data Science for Urban Analytics”. 4 day workshop jointly taught with Alex Singleton at the Ritsumeikan University. Kyoto (Japan). January
2016
“Geographic Data Science with PySAL and the pydata stack”. 4h workshop jointly taught with Sergio J. Rey at the 15th. annual Scientific Computing with Python Conference. Austin (USA). July
2014
“Spatial Data, Analysis and Regression mini-course”. 14h workshop taught at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Nuremberg (Germany). September
“Workshop on open Workflows II”. 1.5 day workshop jointly taught with Thomas de Graaff at the Department of Spatial Economics, VU University. Amsterdam (Netherlands). September
“Spatial Data, Analysis and Regression mini-course”. 12h workshop taught at the Department of Economics, University of Houston. Houston (USA). August
2013
“Geo-computation in Python”. Workshop taught at the VII Jornadas de SIG Libre. March 6th. SIGTE, Universitat de Girona (Spain). March
2012
“Modeling Spatial Systems: Networks and Spatial Econometrics”. One day intensive course jointly taught with Dr. Emmanouil Tranos. Department of Spatial Economics, VU University. Amsterdam (Netherlands). December
“An introduction to spatial analysis and spatial econometrics with OpenGeoDa and GeoDaSpace”. Salvador (Brazil). July
“OpenGeoDa, GeoDaSpace and PySAL Lab instructor”. Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute. Catholic University. Rome (Italy). May
2009
“Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Conservation”. hosted by the National Centre for Biological Sciences in collaboration with the Nature Conservation Foundation and the GeoDa Center. Bangalore (India). July

Assistantship

2010
“Microeconomics II”. Bachelor in Business Administration, Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Principal instructor: Gemma Larramona. September-December
“Mejorando la experiencia de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de microeconomía intermedia. Elaboración de cuestionarios de autoevaluación en Moodle con feedback automático”. (Project "Improving the learning experience of intermediate microeconomics students. Fabrication of self-evaluation questionaires in Moodle with automatic feedback"). PIIDUZ-10-2-492. Universidad de Zaragoza. Member. 01/09/2010-30/06/2011. Coordinator: Domingo Pérez Ximénez de Embún

Line management - Supervision

Postdoctoral Researchers

2025-
Martina Pardy. PDRA, Imago Data Service for Imagery
Fang Chen. PDRA, Imago Data Service for Imagery
Shaonlee Patranabis. PDRA, Imago Data Service for Imagery
2023-25
Stuart Lynn. Lead Research Data Scientist
Barbara Metzler. PDRA
2020-24
Martin Fleischmann. PDRA
2022-23
Anna Zanchetta. PDRA
2021-22
Alessia Calafiore. PDRA

Supervisor

2025-
Baromasak Klanreungsang. University of Liverpool (Primary supervisor)
2024-
Yuta Sato. ESRC NWSSDTP
2020-2025
Gladys Kenyon. ESRC CDAS CDT, with Idealista (Primary supervisor)
2020-24
Qihao Liu. University of Liverpool
2019-25
James Murphy. ESRC CDAS CDT, with Marlan Maritime Technologies (Primary supervisor)
2018-24
Danial Owen. ESRC CDAS CDT (Primary supervisor)
2018-23
Sian Teesdale. ESRC CDAS CDT, with ESRI-Here. Unfinished
2022
John Freeman. ESRC CDAS CDT, with Health & Safety Executive. Unfinished (Primary supervisor)
Meruyert Kenzhebay. ESRC CDAS CDT, with MGISS. Unfinished
2017-22
Melanie Green. ESRC CDAS CDT, with Ordnance Survey. Unfinished (Primary supervisor)
2017-23
Krasen Samardzhiev. ESRC CDAS CDT, with CARTO (Primary supervisor)
2018-22
Yassir Alharbi. University of Liverpool
2017-21
Nikos Patias. ESRC CDAS CDT, with Ordnance Survey
Sam Comber. ESRC NWSSDTP, with Local Data Company (Primary supervisor)
2016-21
Meixu Chen. University of Liverpool (Primary supervisor)
Yunzhe Liu. University of Liverpool
Ellen Talbot. ESRC NWSSDTP
2016-18
Muhammad Hakim Bin Danial. University of Liverpool
Kush Tackar. University of Liverpool

Visitor Host

2024-25
Paula Falcao. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Brazil
2023-24
Ugur Ursavas. Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University. Turkey
2022
Marianna Magagnoli. Universitat de Barcelona. Spain
2019
Júlio Cesar Lopes. Universidade Católica de Brasília. Brazil
2017
Cassiano Ricardo Dalberto. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Brazil

Committee Member

2025
Job Rosier. Characterization of urban land use and urban land dynamics in data scarce regions. VU University (Amsterdam). External examiner. April
2021
Mohammed Ibrahim. A Computer Vision System for Detecting and Analysing Critical Events in Cities. University College London. External examiner. April
Sarah Catherine Gadd. Analysing spatio-temporal networks with continuous-time models. University of Leeds. External examiner. April
2020
Michele Ferretti. Geographies of Code: Decompiling the 'Smart City' through the study of software engineering practices. Kings College London (UK). External examiner. December
Jacob Macdonald. Leveraging Geospatial Statistics for Measuring and Valuing the Urban Environment. Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Committee member. July
Helena Nilsson. Spatial Organisation of Retail Activities. Jönköping University. Examiner. May
2019
Alec Edward Davies. The era of repurposed data: Exploring health via Data Science and new forms of data. University of Liverpool. Internal examiner. January
2018
Helen V. Roberts. Investigating the role of social media and smart device applications in understanding human-environment relationships in urban green spaces. University of Birmingham. External examiner. February
2016
Linda Woods. A Statistical and Geographical Analysis of Workplace Accidents in Great Britain. University of Liverpool. Internal examiner. December
2015
Jorge Eduardo Patiño Quinchía. Citiscape, Poverty and Crime: a Quantitative Assessment Using VHR Imagery. Universitat Politècnica de València. External referee and committee member. December

Master

2012
Hada Melissa Sáenz Vela. “Análisis exploratorio de Características Socioeconómicas de México mediante la aplicación de métodos de agregación espacial, 2010”. Universidad Autónoma de Cohauila, Centro de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas. Lector (member of Committee). September

Service to University and Community

Journal Referee

African Journal of Agricultural Research (1), Annals of the American Association of Geographers (1), Annals of GIS (1), Annals of Regional Science (4), Applied Geography (3), Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (1), Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (12), Environment and Planning A (2) / B (12) / C (1), European Planning Studies (1), European Urban and Regional Studies (1), Geographical Analysis (8), Innovation (1), International Journal of Sustainable Development (1), International Journal of GIS (2), International Regional Science Review (6), Journal of Geographical Systems (1), Journal of Geography and Regional Planning (1), Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (1), Journal of Regional Science (1), Journal of Statistical Software (2), Journal of Transport Geography (2), Journal of Urban Management (1), Journal of Urbanism (1), Landscape and Urban Planning (1), Nature Human Behaviour (1), Papers in Regional Science (5), Proceedings of the Python in Science Conference (2), REGION (1), Regional Science Policy and Practice (1), Regional Studies (4), Spatial Economic Analysis (4), Spatial Networks (1), Tourism Economics (1), Transactions in GIS (3), Urban Geography (2). Urban Studies (3)

External Examination Experience

2024-
University College London (UK): MSc in Social and Geographic Data Science
2022-2025
University of Leeds (UK): MSc in Urban Data Science and Analytics
2019-2023
University of Glasgow (UK): MSc in Urban Analytics

External Review/Panel Experience

2021
UKRI. Agile Research and Innovation response to COVID-19 issues (EPSRC Panel). Panel member
2019
Wellcome. Open Research Fund Awards. Panel member
2018
Jisc Geographic Data Service. Test & Feedback Panel. Member

Other

2023-
Co-host, The GLaD Podcast. https://gladpodcast.podbean.com
2024
Scientific Committee Member, World Multidisciplinary Congress on Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Urban Planning. Ostrava (Czech Republic)
2018
Mentor, Google Summer of Code. Project: “splot: visualisation in PySAL”
2017
Mentor, Google Summer of Code. Project: “Regionalization in PySAL”
2016
Mentor, Google Summer of Code. Project: “Spatial Interaction Modeling in PySAL”
Paper reviewer of the proceedings, 2016 Python for Scientific Computing (SciPy) Conference
2015
Paper reviewer of the proceedings, 2015 Python for Scientific Computing (SciPy) Conference
2014-
Young Scholars Committee Member. Centre for Geocomputation. Ryerson University (Canada)
Paper reviewer of the proceedings, 2014 Python for Scientific Computing (SciPy) Conference
Program committee member, 2014 Python for Scientific Computing (SciPy) Conference
2013
Epainos Award / Young Regional Scientist Sessions. Reviewer. 53rd. ERSA Congress

Scientific Software

PySAL — Python library of spatial analysis. Core development team. https://pysal.org
gds_env — A containerised platform for Geographic Data Science. Creator and maintainer. https://darribas.org/gds_env/
contextily — Contextual tiles in Python. Creator and core developer. https://contextily.readthedocs.io/
xyzservices — XYZ basemaps in Python. Creator and developer. https://xyzservices.readthedocs.io/
GeoDaSpace — Advanced spatial econometrics. Core development team.

Language Skills

Spanish — Native.
English — Fluent writing, reading and speaking. Maximum level by the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zaragoza.
French — Medium writing, reading and speaking. Fourth year (out of five) at the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zaragoza.