Egor Kotov
Affiliate Researcher
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolEgor Kotov is a spatial data scientist and doctoral researcher with over a decade of experience working with larger-than-memory datasets, graph representations, and urban mobility research. He combines academic rigor from roles at MPIDR and Universitat Pompeu Fabra with practical teaching and consultancy experience across universities and international organisations. Currently he studies how human mobility patterns drive the spread of tiger mosquitoes in Spain using mobile phone data, blending computational reproducibility with applied epidemiology and urban planning. His background spans lecturing, research fellowships, and editorial work in computational reproducibility, reflecting a rare mix of methodological depth and operational focus. Based in northern Germany, he brings an interdisciplinary perspective informed by economics, planning, and advanced spatial computation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Planning, Environmental Management, Surveying, MSc, Planning, Environmental Management, Surveying at University of AberdeenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Universitat Pompeu FabraEquivalent of MA, Economics, Energy Markets, Equivalent of MA, Economics, Energy Markets at State University — Higher School of EconomicsEquivalent of MA, Economics, Energy Markets, Equivalent of MA, Economics, Energy Markets at National Research University - Higher School of Economics
English, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
gtfs10
alternate10
geography10
spatial10
mobility10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
overpass-api10
cdr10
qgis10
r10
spatial-regression10
github-api10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
marcosci/layer
Jun 2023 - May 2026
Create stacked tilted maps
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 11 months
stackedggplot2spatial-visualizationsrstatsmap
e-kotov/e-kotov
Aug 2021 - Aug 2025
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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