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Dr Alex Hagen-Zanker

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 2440
Room no: 04 AA 03

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Biography

Alex Hagen-Zanker is expert in the quantitative analysis and simulation modelling of land use, transport and activities. Understanding the patterns of human activities, and the associated demand for infrastructure and the use of scarce resources such as land, energy and water, is crucial for efficient planning and investment. The processes of urban growth are of great interest, especially in the light of rapid global urbanization, but also in the context of environmental and demographic change. Much of current research focuses on the interdependencies between urban systems, in particular the tight relationship between land use, building stock and transport.

He has an MSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in geosimulation. Before joining the University of Surrey in October 2012, he worked as a consultant at the Research Institute for Knowledge Systems in the Netherlands and held research positions at the Universities of Maastricht, Eindhoven and Cambridge.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Hagen-Zanker A, Jin Y. (2012) 'A New Method of Adaptive Zoning for Spatial Interaction Models'. Geographical Analysis, 44, pp. 281-301.
    doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2012.00855.x
  • van Vliet J, Bregt AK, Hagen-Zanker A. (2011) 'Revisiting Kappa to account for change in the accuracy assessment of land-use change models'. Ecological Modelling, 222, pp. 1367-1375.
    doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.01.017
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2009) 'An improved Fuzzy Kappa statistic that accounts for spatial autocorrelation'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23, pp. 61-73.
    doi: 10.1080/13658810802570317
  • Wickramasuriya RC, Bregt AK, van Delden H, Hagen-Zanker A. (2009) 'The dynamics of shifting cultivation captured in an extended Constrained Cellular Automata land use model'. Ecological Modelling, 220, pp. 2302-2309.
    doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.05.021
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Lajoie G. (2008) 'Neutral models of landscape change as benchmarks in the assessment of model performance'. Landscape and Urban Planning, 86, pp. 284-296.
    doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.04.002
  • Lajoie G, Hagen-Zanker A. (2007) 'La simulation de l'étalement urbain à la Réunion: Apport de l'automate cellulaire Metronamica® pour la prospective territoriale'. CyberGeo, 2007
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2006) 'Map comparison methods that simultaneously address overlap and structure'. Journal of Geographical Systems, 8, pp. 165-185.
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Straatman B, Uljee I. (2005) 'Further developments of a fuzzy set map comparison approach'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19, pp. 769-785.
  • Hagen A. (2003) 'Fuzzy set approach to assessing similarity of categorical maps'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 17, pp. 235-249.

Conference papers

  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2012) 'A comparison of three urban models of land use, transport and activity: Are different modelling traditions really a world apart.'. Oporto, Portugal : Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial Systems, pp. 337-338.
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Jin Y. (2011) 'Reducing aggregation error in spatial interaction models by location sampling'. London : The 11th International Conference on GeoComputation
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Jin Y. (2011) 'Improving geographic scalability of traffic assignment through adaptive zoning.'. Lake Louise, Canada : Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management 2011 Conference
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Jin Y. (2010) 'Adaptive zoning and its effectiveness in spatial economic activity simulation'. Jönköping, Sweden : 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2008) 'A multi-scale metric of compactness of urban change illustrated to 22 European countries.'. Liverpool : University of Liverpool 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, pp. 1-18.
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2008) 'Sensititivity analysis of a cellular automata land use model through multiple metrics of goodness-of-fit'. Leende : Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Architecture,Building, and Planning 9th International Conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, pp. 1-15.
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Martens P. (2008) 'Map comparison methods for comprehensive assessment of geosimulation models'. Heidelberg, Berlin : Springer Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (5072) 5072, pp. 194-209.
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2008) 'Visualization and classification of urban change patterns on the basis of state-space transitions'. Girona : Commission on GeoVisualization of the International Cartographic Association GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change - Workshop at the AGILE 2008 Conference, pp. 1-3.
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Lajoie G. (2007) 'Multi-criteria, multi-scale, and multi-referenced: A methodology for the evaluation of spatial models'. Utrecht : Framing Land Use Dynamics II, pp. 1-2.
  • Hagen-Zanker A, de Vries I, Hartholt H. (2007) 'The dilemma of dykes – Risk and opportunities in a geomorphological simulation at mega timescales'. Delft, the Netherlands : TUDelft Position paper for the seminar The playful city – serious gaming for sustainable urban development, pp. 1-4.
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2006) 'Evaluating the morphological quality of land use models'. Chicago : Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2005) 'Neighbourhood based map comparison'. Syracuse : Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology
  • Hagen-Zanker A, van Loon J, Maas A, Straatman B, de Nijs T, Engelen G. (2005) 'Measuring performance of land use models: An evaluation framework for the calibration and validation of integrated land use models featuring cellular automata'. Lisbon : Universidade Nova de Lisboa Proceedings of the 14th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, pp. 1-11.
  • Hagen A. (2003) 'Map comparison for the calibration of spatial models'. Utrecht : Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University Framing Land Use Dynamics, pp. 67-68.
  • Hagen A. (2002) 'Approaching human judgement in the automated comparison of categorical maps'. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom : 4th International conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, pp. 1-6.
  • Hagen A. (2002) 'Multi-method assessment of map similarity'. Palma : Universitat de les Illes Balears Proceedings of the 5th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, pp. 171-182.

Book chapters

  • Hagen-Zanker A, Martens P. (2011) 'A framework of map comparison methods to evaluate geosimulation models from a geospatial perspective'. in Murgante B, Borruso G, Lapucci A (eds.) Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning 348 Edition. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg , pp. 251-269.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19733-8_14
  • Hagen-Zanker A, Timmermans HJP. (2008) 'A metric of compactness of urban change illustrated to 22 European countries'. in Bernard L, Friis-Christensen A, Pundt H (eds.) Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography: The European Information Society, Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further Berlin : Springer , pp. 181-200.
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2007) 'A state-space representation for measuring urban change'. in Bunce RGH, Jongman RHG, L.Hojas , Weel S (eds.) 7th IALE World Congress 2nd Edition. Wageningen : IALE , pp. 870-871.
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2007) 'Quantification and classification of urban change patterns'. in Demšar U (ed.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geocomputation Maynooth : National University of Ireland , pp. 1-3.

Reports

  • Hagen-Zanker A, Engelen G, Hurkens J, Vanhout R, Uljee I. (2006) Map Comparison Kit 3: User Manual. Maastricht : Research Institute for Knowledge Systems
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2006) Comparing continuous valued raster data: a cross disciplinairy literature scan. Maastricht : Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS)
  • Hagen-Zanker A. (2006) Map Comparison Kit: Beta extension for continuous valued data. Maastricht : Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS)
  • Hagen A. (2002) Comparison of maps containing nominal data. Maastricht : Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS)

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Teaching

ENG1061: Mathematics 1 (Teaching Assistant)

ENG2116: Mathematics and Numerical Methods (Module Coordinator)

ENGM057: Water Resources Management and Hydraulic Modelling (Contributor)