Research
Francisco's areas of expertise are: internal & international migration; human mobility; and geographic data science. He is featured in the Experts Database of the United Nations Network on Migration and two of his projects on Big Data, machine learning and migration are listed in the Data Innovation Directory of the International Organization for Migration. He has been invited to present his research at the United Nations Population & Development Division in New York and works closely with the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre within International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the UK2070 Commission, UK’s government organisations, including the Ordnance Survey and the ONS Data Campus, and commercial companies, Geolytix. His work contributed to the United Nations Expert group meeting on `sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration', and the ONS Government Statistical Service Advisory Committee. Francisco is the current managing editor of REGION (2022-present), the journal of the European Regional Science Association (2018-present) and social media editor at the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (2021-present). The international reach of his research has been recognised by an award for the best paper published in the journal of Geographical Systems (2021) and in Spatial Economic Analysis (2018) and having top articles in the top 10 most read articles in Spatial Economic Analysis (2017-present), Transportation Research Part C (2018-2019) & Population Studies (2018-present).
Human mobility and migration
Economic Geography and Spatial Inequality
Geographic Data Science
Research groups
Research grants
Supporting Post Pandemic Recovery and Resilience through New Forms of Data
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2022 - July 2023
Functional spaces and mobility
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE (UK) (CHARITABLE)
August 2021 - March 2022
Understanding the declining trend in internal migration in Europe
REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (UK)
December 2016 - May 2018
Research collaborations
Marzia Rango
International Organization for Migration, United Nations
Using large scale social media data to measure perceptions towards immigrants
Jorge Rodríguez-Vignoli
The Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE)
Measuring and understanding the impacts of internal migration on cities, towns and local communities in Latin American countries
Stefano Cavazzi
Ordnance Survey
Spatio-temporal analyses of neighbourhoods - this work was part of a PhD and was featured by the Geospatial Commission: https://geospatialcommission.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/19/spatio-temporal-analyses-of-neighbourhoods/