Marco Helbich

Human Geography and Planning - Social Urban Transitions
Utrecht University
Netherlands

Biography

he is an urban geographer and geographic information scientist at the Department for Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, which I joined mid-2013. The European Research Council recognized my research efforts in 2016 by awarding me a Starting Grant. Prior my appointment at Utrecht University, I was an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the Geographic Information Science group at Heidelberg University, Germany, where I was also awarded with the venia legendi (habilitation) in human geography in 2015. Before this I was a visiting scholar at the Louisiana State University, USA, and worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2009 I obtained my Ph.D. (summa cum laude) at the University of Vienna which was funded through an Austrian Academy of Sciences grant for young academics.

Research Intrest

Health geography

List of Publications
Helbich, M (2017). Children’s school commuting in the Netherlands: Does it matter how urban form is incorporated in mode choice models?. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 11 (7), (pp. 507-517).
Blüml, V, Helbich, M., Mayr, M, Turnwald, R, Vyssoki, B, Lewitzka, U, Hartung, S, Plener, P, Fegert, J & Kapusta, N (2017). Antidepressant sales and regional variations of suicide mortality in Germany. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 87, (pp. 88-94).
Hagenauer, J & Helbich, M (2017). A comparative study of machine learning classifiers for modeling travel mode choice. Expert Systems with Applications, 78, (pp. 273-282).