Talks & Presentations

A chronological archive of conference presentations, invited seminars, lightning talks, workshops, and recorded sessions.

2026

Scaling individual traces to regional realities: Quantifying the gap between transit availability and realized mobility

Conference 18th NECTAR Conference • Munich, Germany • 13–15 July 2026

Kotov, E.

spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data

Conference 29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science • Tartu, Estonia • 16–19 June 2026

Kotov, E., Vidal-Tortosa, E., Cantú-Ros, O., Burrieza-Galán, J., Herranz, R., Gullón Muñoz-Repiso, T., Lovelace, R.

A causal analysis of human mobility on colonization of disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes in Spain

Poster 29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science • Tartu, Estonia • 16–19 June 2026

Kotov, E., Pardo-Araujo, M., Eritja, R., Bartumeus, F.

Daily Mobility Validation: Biases in Spanish Open Mobility Data

Conference Mobile Tartu 2026 • Tartu, Estonia • 8–10 June 2026

Aumann, S., Gartmeier, H., Kotov, E.

Evaluating {spanishoddata} for biases with {debiasR}.

From Spatial Accessibility to Realized Mobility: Evaluating Personal Constraints Using Population-Representative GPS Data

Conference Mobile Tartu 2026 • Tartu, Estonia • 8–10 June 2026

Kotov, E.

2025

Open MNO Mobility Data in Spain: A Reproducible Sharing Approach via R package {spanishoddata}

Conference Eurostat MNO-MINDS Final Conference • Paris, France • 24 September 2025

Kotov, E., Vidal-Tortosa, E., Cantú-Ros, O. G., Burrieza-Galán, J., Herranz, R., Gullón Muñoz-Repiso, T., Lovelace, R.

Beyond Averages: Inequalities in Mobility-Based PM2.5 Exposure in Greater Paris

Poster NetMob 2025 • Paris, France • October 2025

Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies

Conference & Posters Multiple Venues • 2025

Kotov, E., Theile, T., Hexel, O., Jacobs, E., Kim, J., Perrotta, D., Zagheni, E.

Presented across European spatial analysis and computational social science meetings:

  • Presentation: 24th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG) • Tallinn, Estonia (10–14 September 2025)
  • Poster: IC2S2 (11th International Conference on Computational Social Science) • Norrköping, Sweden (21–24 July 2025)
  • Presentation: Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) Conference 2025 • Salzburg, Austria (2–3 July 2025) • Abstract DOI: 10.25598/agit/2025-52
  • Poster: AGILE Conference 2025 • Dresden, Germany (10–13 June 2025) • Abstract DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15336007

Massive open mobile phone derived human mobility data is coming to the EU

Invited Talk Geomob Berlin • Berlin, Germany • 4 June 2025

Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Accessibility Approach to Mobility

Conference CS2Italy 2025 • Trento, Italy • 15–18 January 2025

Kotov, E., Theile, T., Hexel, O., Jacobs, E., Kim, J., Perrotta, D., Zagheni, E.

2024

Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Accessibility Approach to Mobility

Conference Urban Transitions 2024 • Sitges, Spain • 5–7 November 2024

Kotov, E., Theile, T., Hexel, O., Jacobs, E., Kim, J., Perrotta, D., Zagheni, E.

Effects of human mobility on the spread of disease-transmitting mosquitoes in Spain: Insights from mobile phone data

Conference EuroCarto & Mobile Tartu • 2024

Kotov, E., Bartumeus, F., Palmer, J.

  • EuroCarto 2024 • Vienna, Austria (9–11 September 2024)
  • Mobile Tartu 2024 • Tartu, Estonia (11–14 June 2024)

2023

Seasonal Shifts in Mobile Data Consumption: Investigating the Effect of Daylight Variation on Application Usage Patterns

Conference NetMob 2023 • Madrid, Spain • 4–6 October 2023

Kotov, E., Hexel, O., Theile, T., Jacobs, E., Perrotta, D., Kim, J., Zagheni, E.

High-resolution estimates of mosquito exposure inequalities in Spanish urban areas: Activity space approach using call detail records

Conference Multiple Venues • 2023

Kotov, E.

  • 62nd ERSA Congress • Alicante, Spain (28 August – 1 September 2023)
  • Regional Studies Association Annual Conference • Ljubljana, Slovenia (14–17 June 2023)
  • Urban Spaces and Mosquitoes on a Changing Planet • Barcelona, Spain (23–25 March 2023)

Mosquitoes May Conquer the World by Car: Spatial Modelling of Mosquito Dispersal

Lightning Talk Spatial Lightning Talks UCSB • Santa Barbara, CA (Online) • 16 March 2023

2022

Comparative analysis of regional and municipal level factors of COVID-19 mortality

Conference 61st ERSA Congress • Pécs, Hungary (Online) • 2022

2021

Population Density in Random Boundaries Using Open Data

Invited Talk Independent Webinar • 12 October 2021

Presented in Russian with auto-translated captions available on YouTube.

Factors of COVID-19 mortality in Russian municipalities and Arctic cities

Conference 60th ERSA Congress • Online • 2021

Typology of the Russian and Arctic regions under the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic

Conference 13th World Congress of the RSAI • Online • 2021

2020

The role of land use and transport accessibility in trip generation: evidence from the Moscow mobile phone data

Conference Mobile Tartu 2020 • Tartu, Estonia • 30 June 2020

2019

On Urban Data in Russia and on Winning Urban Data Hackathons

Invited Talk Soft Culture & Infoculture • 5 August 2019

Egor Kotov & Yuri Kulchitsky

Presented in Russian with auto-translated captions available on YouTube.

The effects of introduction of the Moscow Central Circle rail passenger service: transport, urban, economic and travel behaviour consequences

Conference NECTAR 2019 Conference • Helsinki, Finland • 2019

Exploring fringe belts in Moscow: the implications for the city’s spatial development in 1990–2020

Conference XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2019) • Nicosia, Cyprus • 2019

Do we really need big data for citizen mobility analysis?

Conference Digital Transformation & Global Society 2019 • St. Petersburg, Russia • 2019

2018

Urban spatial structure – from hypotheses to objective knowledge

Symposium International Scientific Symposium “Tracing the Future City” • Moscow, Russia • 21 December 2018

Presented in Russian with auto-translated captions available on YouTube.

Interview with RAIF Hackathon 2018 Winners: Cadastral price prediction for Rosreestr

Interview RAIF Hackathon • 23 October 2018

Interview in Russian with auto-translated captions available on YouTube.

Master class in urban data pre-processing and cleaning

Masterclass Data-sreda: city and geospatial data • Moscow, Russia • 21 March 2018

Example of address registry dataset from data.mos.ru. In Russian with auto-translated captions on YouTube.

Connecting Morpho to urban vitality: the case of Moscow

Conference XXV International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2018) • Krasnoyarsk, Russia • 2018

2017

Polycentric Urban Development

Invited Talk Data & Science: city (Yandex) • Moscow, Russia • 21 May 2017

Presented in Russian with auto-translated captions available on YouTube.

(De-)densification in Moscow

Workshop BRICS+ City Lab: Urban Densification • Johannesburg, South Africa • 2017

Post-industrial urban polycentricity

Conference XVIII April International Academic Conference • Moscow, Russia • 2017

2016

Moscow: heading towards polycentricity

Conference Moscow Urban Forum 2016 • Moscow, Russia • 30 June 2016

Presented in Russian with simultaneous interpretation in English.

Development trends in Moscow: development of new centers, strengthening of existing ones or ad hoc development?

Conference XVII April International Academic Conference • Moscow, Russia • 2016