Pandemic and the City / Footprints of Regional Science (PDF)

Mehmet Güney Celbis (Ph.D. UNU-MERIT, 2015) is an affiliated researcher at UNU-MERIT, and an assistant professor at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include machine learning for socioeconomic analysis and urban and rural economies and spatial economics.Karima Kourtit is a researcher at the Open University, Heerlen, the Netherlands. She was laboratory owner at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in the division Smart Cities and Data Analytics (owned by the Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University), 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. She has worked in the Department of Urban Planning and Environment at the Center for the Future of Places (CFP), at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. She holds two PhDs, in both economics and geography (with distinction), and has a particular interest in regional and urban topics. Her research focuses on the emerging "New Urban World." She has also been involved in the implementation of several national and international research projects and initiatives. She is also managing director of the Regional Science Academy.
Peter Nijkamp is an emeritus professor of regional and urban economics and of economic geography at the VU University and is also associated with the Open University of the Netherlands (OU), Heerlen (the Netherlands); Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi (Romania); KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden), the University of Technology, Benguérir (Morocco), and A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of more than 30 journals. According to the RePec list, he is one of the top 30 best-known economists in the world. He is also a fellow and former vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy ofSciences. He has served as president of the governing board of the Netherlands Research