Bio

Bowen is a research associate at the Urban Analytics. His research interests include utilising urban big data for analysing & predicting human mobility patterns and predicting risks related to climate change in urban environments based on human activity and socio-demographic factors.

Prior joining to the UA group, he was a doctoral student of the Department of Geography at King’s College London

Projects

                
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Clim Recal

Collection of methods to de-bias climate projection data (sub-component of DyME-CHH but also used as independent codebase)

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DyME - Climate, Heat and Health (DyME-CHH)

Use disaggregated climate data to model the health effects of heat exposure in different population groups, based on where they live and how they move

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Synthetic Population Catalyst

Tool that creates a synthetic population for any area within Great Britain, including socio-demographic, health and daily activity data. Calibrated to 2020, with projections of some variables to between 2012 and 2039.

Blogs