Dr. Esra Suel

Biography

Esra Suel is an Associate Professor specializing in Urban Analytics at the University of Zurich. She obtained her PhD in Transport and Urban Systems from Imperial College London in 2016. Following her doctoral studies, she held postdoctoral research positions at both Imperial College and ETH Zurich. In 2022, she joined the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London as a Lecturer, before being appointed Associate Professor for City Modelling in 2024. Her research group develops computational methods to analyze built environments and human behavior in urban contexts, with a focus on mobility, land use, housing, and the connections to social, environmental, and health inequalities. Current research projects address the transition to net-zero and key housing challenges in urban areas. The group aims to quantify city- and population-level changes at fine spatial scales using emerging digital and traditional data sources, modeling urban dynamics through forecasting and scenario testing while integrating agent-based models, spatial interaction models, and deep learning techniques. Furthermore, they investigate how individual behavior evolves over time in response to interventions in urban contexts.

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