2021 TO 2022

Pedro Amaral is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is Chair of the Latin America Division of Regional Studies Association (RSA) and Deputy Secretary of the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Urban and Regional Planning (ANPUR).

Dani Arribas-Bel is Lecturer in Geographic Data Science and member of the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool (UK). Dani is interested in undestanding cities and their spatial structure. As part of that, he focuses on the quantitative and computational methods required to leverage the power of the large amount of urban data increasingly becoming available. He is also part of the team of core developers of PySAL, the open-source library written in Python for spatial analysis. Dani regularly teaches Geographic Data Science and Python courses at the University of Liverpool and has designed and developed several workshops at different levels on spatial analysis and econometrics, Python and open source scientific computing.

Pedro Herrera-Catalán is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from the Catholic University of Peru. His research interests focus on industrial agglomeration, network externalities, and spatial interaction modelling. He is currently working on research that involves a sensitivity analysis of scale effects in origin-destination flow models using linear and nonlinear estimation methods.

Alexander Lehner is a research fellow in economics at the University of Bologna focusing on the classic question of why some countries are rich and others not.  He won the Young Researcher Prize of the Regional Science Association International in 2018. His research agenda is on the intersection of spatial economics and economic development, touching upon urbanization/agglomeration, migration, fertility, and the roots of gender inequality. 

Kamaria C. Massey is a doctoral candidate in the Urban Educational Leadership program at Morgan State University. She currently focuses her research on the effects of historical trauma in education.