SPATIAL DYNAMICS LAB - Key Persons
Bernardo Buarque is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Before, he completed a PhD from the University College Dublin, where he worked at the Spatial Dynamics Lab. His research interests concern the evolution of knowledge, networks, statistics, econometrics, and stochastic dynamic modeling. continue reading
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- Associate Professor at the Department of Media & Social Informatics
Changjun Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media & Social Informatics, and the Institute of Creativity & Interaction at Hanyang University, South Korea.
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- Director
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- Director of the UCD
Dieter F. Kogler is the Academic Director of the UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab.
Dieter F. Kogler is the co-founder and academic director of the UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab. He is an Associate Prof. in Economic Geography at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. His research focus is on the geography of innovation and evolutionary economic geography, with particular emphasis on knowledge production and diffusion, and processes related to technological change, innovation, and economic growth. Dr. Kogler is an ERC Starter Grant Holder with the following project title: Technology Evolution in Regional Economies (TechEvo). This is a 5-year, 1.5m research project with the objective to produce a series of economic indicators, models and tools which will enable firms and policy makers, across Europe, to make more informed and better location-based investment decisions to boost innovation and drive regional prosperity; see here for further details. His career path combines professional, education and research experience acquired in Europe, the United States, and Canada within a variety of areas pertaining to the spatial analysis of socio-economic phenomena. He is an Editor of Regional Studies and an Editorial Board member of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, both of which are highly regarded top-tier peer-reviewed journals concerned with research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic processes. Further, Dr. Kogler is also an editor of the Economic Geography book series published by Springer. Since 2014 he is a Board Member (Conference and Events Coordinator) of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), which serves as a global forum for city and regional research, development and policy, as well as an Associate Editor for the RSA's interdisciplinary open access journal, Regional Studies, Regional Science. In 2016, he spent a period as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for North South Economic Research(CRENoS) at the University of Cagliari and University of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
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- Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture
Enda is Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy and has been programme Director for the Masters in Regional and Urban Planning since 2019. Between 2015-2018, he held the position of Vice-Principal for Graduate Studies and Director of the Graduate School for the College of Social Sciences and Law (CoSSL). He holds a B.A Natural Science (2002), Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics (2004) and PhD (2005) in Transportation Planning all from Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Prior to being appointed at UCD he worked as an Environmental Protection Agency and Science Foundation Ireland Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TCD where he undertook research in the area of environmental acoustics. His research interests are broad in scope but centre on the areas of urban transportation and spatial planning, environmental noise, neoliberalism/neoliberalisation, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has published widely in the international literature including, inter alia, in such journals as Environment International, Journal of Environmental Management, Transportation Research A and D, Planning Theory, Urban Studies, Town Planning Review, Geoforum, Cities and Applied Acoustics. He is author/co-author of more than 90 academic journal papers, book chapters, conference papers and reports and is co-author of two books. Enda has held visiting professor positions at the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, University of Hartford, USA, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, and at CRENoS, University of Cagliari. He is a former Fulbright Scholar.
Francesco Pilla's area of expertise is geospatial analysis and modelling of environmental dynamics, which involve the development of environmental pollution models (air, noise, water) and decision support tools using a GIS platform
Gergő Tóth is a PhD candidate at the Spatial Dynamics Lab of University College Dublin and a Junior Research Fellow of the ANET Lab at Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Budapest.
Gergő Tóth completed his bachelor's degree at Eötvös Loránd University's ELTEcon program, then received his MA degree from Central European University. In his thesis he studied the role of social capital and network topology in the political decision-making process on micro level. For the time being he is a Ph.D. candidate at University College Dublin's Spatial Dynamics Lab.
His research area is the combination of econometrics and network analysis with a special focus on the causal inferences. He has published in leading interdisciplinary journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and PLOSOne, and in prestigious field journals like Economic Geography and The Journal of Technology Transfer. He is the 2017 recipient of the international CERGE Teaching Fellow scholarship to teach at the Department of Economics at Eötvös Loránd University.
He works as a junior research fellow at the ANET Lab, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies in Hungary since 2017. He is also affiliated to the Department of Geography, Umeå University, working as an external researcher on administrative data. His research focuses on questions at the intersection of economics, statistics, and network science. In particular, he is currently studying the role of network structures on regional economic resilience.
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- Research Fellow of the UCD
Hyunha Shin is a postdoctoral research fellow of the UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab. She is currently assigned to a ERC TechEvo project, examining knowledge trajectories and structural changes in regional economies.
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- Assistant Professor at Pusan National University
Junmin Lee is Assistant Professor at Pusan National University in South Korea and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin.
Keungoui Kim is an assitant professor in the School of Applied Artificial Intelligence at Handong Global University, South Korea.
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- Fellow at the Department of Econometrics
Massimiliano Coda Zabetta is a Maria Zambrano Fellow at the Department of Econometrics of the University of Barcelona.