CV Athanasios Votsis

Title Senior Researcher
Contact athanasios.votsis@fmi.fi
Postal address Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, FI-00101 HELSINKI
Street address Erik Palménin Aukio 1, FI-00560 HELSINKI
Phone number +358 50 433 0789
Fax +358 29 539 3146

Fields of expertise

  • Urban and regional planning (spatial planning, land use planning, urban design, urban economic development planning, comprehensive planning)

  • Urban economics (real estate markets, risks and amenities, urban growth and urbanization)

  • Artificial intelligence and computational methods, computational planning support systems

  • Socio-economic impact assessment (climate change, weather extremes, air quality, sand and dust storms)

Projects

University and other degrees

  • 2017: Ph.D., Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • 2006: Master's, Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA (Accredited by the American Planning Association)

  • 2004: B.Sc., Geology, Aristotle University, Greece

Previous professional appointments

PhD fellow, Helsinki University Centre for Environment (HENVI), 2011-2014

Other professional activities

Lecturer (Applied Spatial Statistics and Urban Modelling), University of Helsinki