Egor Kotov is a spatial data scientist and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Spatial Modelling Lab within the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. He is also a researcher with the Sociodemography Research Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, and an affiliate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, where he is associated with the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility and the Department of Digital and Computational Demography. Additionally, Egor serves as a computation and reproducibility co-editor at the Population Dynamics Lab.
Egor focuses on analysis of digital trace data to study human mobility patterns and its effects on disease dynamics and spatial inequalities.
Access the website of the Beyond the Chatbox workshop at ekotov.pro/2026-09-agentic-workshop/
(2026). spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 
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title = {{spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data}},
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(2026). Understanding Mosquito Vector Invasion Pathways: Synergistic Effects of Human Mobility, Climate and Natural Dispersal. Ecology Letters. 
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author = {Pardo-Araujo, Marta and Kotov, Egor and Alonso, David and Bartumeus, Frederic},
title = {{Understanding Mosquito Vector Invasion Pathways: Synergistic Effects of Human Mobility, Climate, and Natural Dispersal}},
year = {2026},
volume = {29},
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(2026). The scales of urban mobility shape socioeconomic mixing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.28734. 
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author = {Renninger, Andrew and Kotov, Egor and Cabrera, Carmen},
title = {{The scales of urban mobility shape socioeconomic mixing}},
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TY - UNPB AU - Renninger, Andrew AU - Kotov, Egor AU - Cabrera, Carmen TI - The scales of urban mobility shape socioeconomic mixing PY - 2026 T2 - Preprint DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2608.28734 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28734 ER -
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R package to access Spanish origin-destination matrices based on aggregated mobile phone based human mobility data. Featured by the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility of Spain. In collaboration with Robin Lovelace and Eugeni Vidal-Tortosa.
Fast & memory-efficient functions to analyze and manipulate large spatial data sets. It leverages the fast analytical capabilities of DuckDB and its Spatial extension while maintaining compatibility with R’s spatial data ecosystem to work with spatial vector data. Collaboration: Adrián Cidre, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Egor Kotov
R package to dump source code, docs and vignettes or other R packages to plain text to feed to LLMs.
R package to install and control Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) backend executables, prepare routing data and run/stop a local OSRM server. Also comes with a GUI.
R package to interactively explore routes calculated with {r5r} package in a Shiny app, e.g. for troubleshooting routing problems.
R package to create Eurostat GISCO-compatible and INSPIRE-compliant grids from sf objects or bounding boxes. Grids are always aligned to rounded coordinates as per INSPIRE requirements.
Talk: Scaling individual traces to regional realities: Quantifying the gap between transit availability and realized mobility at 18th NECTAR Conference, Munich, Germany, July 2026
Talk: spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data at 29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Tartu, Estonia, June 2026. PDF slides
Talk: From Spatial Accessibility to Realized Mobility: Evaluating Personal Constraints Using Population-Representative GPS Data at Mobile Tartu 2026, Tartu, Estonia, June 2026
Talk: Daily Mobility Validation: Biases in Spanish Open Mobility Data at Mobile Tartu 2026, Tartu, Estonia, June 2026. Online slides
Poster: A causal analysis of human mobility on colonization of disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes in Spain at 29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Tartu, Estonia, June 2026. Paper
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