About

I am currently a PhD Student at the Department of Digital and Computational Demography, Laboratory of Migration and Mobility at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock.

Interests

  • Intra-urban and inter-regional mobility, commuting and migration; determinants, external effects and spillover effects
  • Implications of human mobility for disease dynamics and inequality
  • Causal Inference
  • Machine Learning
  • GIS
  • Data Science

Education

University of Aberdeen
PgDip/MSc in Rural Planning and Environmental Management

Aberdeen, UK
2009-2011

  • Dissertation: An examination and assessment of the causes of urban sprawl around Moscow

Higher School of Economics
Specialist (equivalent to BSc + MSc) in Economics

Moscow, Russia
2004-2009

Experience

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography

Nov 2022 - current

PhD Student (institute profile page)

Higher School of Economics
Faculty of Urban and Regional Development

Sep 2011 - Oct 2022

Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer (see the archived university profile page)

Université Paris-Est
École d’Urbanisme de Paris

Jan-Feb 2018
Jan-Feb 2019

Visiting Lecturer

United Nations Development Programme

Jun 2011 - Oct 2012
Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

Consultant

Teaching

Higher School of Economics
Faculty of Urban and Regional Development

Computational Spatial Morphology (MSc-level course)

2020 - 2022

R Programming for Urban Analytics (MSc-level course)

2015 - 2022

Urban Informatics (BSc-level course)

2016 - 2020

Introduction to Urban Data (MSc-level course)

2020

Université Paris-Est
École d’Urbanisme de Paris

Introduction to GIS (MSc-level 4-day workshop)

Jan 2018
Jan 2019

Awards