Anirudh Govind
is a postdoctoral researcher in human geography at the Spatial and Mobility Analytics Lab at KU Leuven, Belgium. His current research explores how different forms of mobility relate to socio-spatial inequalities, with a particular focus on circular migration.anirudh [.] govind [@] kuleuven [.] be
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Govind, A., & Van Migerode, C. (2026). Exploring the spatial variation in people’s everyday conceptualizations of nearness using large language models. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
· Article · Code & DataGovind, A., Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2025). Cocooning throughout our daily lives: Evidence from a multi-scalar analysis of ethnic activity space segregation in Rotterdam. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.
· Article · Code & DataGovind, A., Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2024). Quantifying the effects of Singapore’s street configurations on people’s activity spaces. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
· Article · Code & Data · WebsiteGovind, A., Leszczynski, A., & Poorthuis, A. (2024). Platform urbanism and “splintering amenitization”: An analysis of Canadian cities. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
· Article · Code & DataGovind, A., Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2024). Delineating neighborhoods: An approach combining urban morphology with point and flow datasets. Geographical Analysis.
· Article · Code & Data · Website · PreprintDerudder, B., Govind, A., & Taylor, P. J. (2024). City connectivity in the office networks of the world’s largest banking firms. Finance and Space, 1(1), 17–20.
· ArticleNaqvi, I., Poorthuis, A., & Govind, A. (2021). Urban governance and electricity losses: An exploration of spatial unevenness in Karachi, Pakistan. Energy Research & Social Science, 79, 102166.
· Article · Code & DataPresentations
* Presenter
Govind, A.*, Hołubowska, O., Chen, Q., & Poorthuis, A. (2026). Mobility, morphology, & activity space segregation across Europe. RC21 Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Govind, A.* (2026). How and why we make big data small shapes biases. DEBIAS Workshop & Symposium, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
Govind, A.* (2026). Circular migration in India: A smartphone app-based dataset. Mobile Tartu X, Tartu, Estonia.
Govind, A.*, Hołubowska, O., & Poorthuis, A. (2026). The persistence of activity space segregation: A European case study. BeNeLux Geography Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
Poorthuis, A.*, Lebrin, B., Curiel-Ruiz Velasco, K., Govind, A., Hołubowska, O., Le Corguillé, J., Van Migerode, C., & Xia, Y. (2026). Game of Gentrification: Can we do justice to complex geography concepts in accessible and ‘fun’ games? BeNeLux Geography Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
Lecoursonnais, M.*, & Govind, A. (2026). Quantifying the influence of neighborhood delineations on neighborhood effects. BeNeLux Geography Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
Hołubowska, O., Renninger, A., & Govind, A.* (2025). Does income segregation persist with daily mobility? ODISSEI Conference 2025, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Govind, A., Poorthuis, A.*, & Derudder, B. (2025). Conceptualizing functional neighborhood boundary intensities. European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Tallinn, Estonia.
Poorthuis, A.*, Järv, O., & Govind, A. (2025). Open-source, continent-scale human mobility datasets derived from geotagged social media. European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Tallinn, Estonia.
Govind, A.*, & Van Migerode, C. (2025). Exploring the geographical variation of nearness in Belgium using large language models. AI & the City, Bengaluru, India.
Govind, A.* (2024). Urban morphology in the study of socio-spatial processes. International Workshop on Spatial Methods, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Govind, A.*, Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2023). Capturing built environment effects on human behaviors using catchment areas. European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Braga, Portugal.
Leszczynski, A.*, Poorthuis, A., & Govind, A. (2023). Urban platformization as splintering amenitization. Geographies of Digital Capitalism session, AAG Annual Meeting 2023, Denver, CO, United States.
Govind, A.*, Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2023). Operational neighbourhoods meet neighbourhood theory: Reintroducing multiple dimensions and urban morphology into delineations of neighbourhoods. Future Directions in Urban Analytics I session, AAG Annual Meeting 2023, Denver, CO, United States.
Govind, A.*, Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2022). Drawing neighbourhood boundaries: A network model approach. 4th ERSA Winter School on Applied Quantitative Methods in Regional Science, Warsaw, Poland.
Govind, A.*, Poorthuis, A., & Derudder, B. (2022). Drawing neighbourhood boundaries. 8th Annual PhD Workshop, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India.
Govind, A.* (2020). Visualizing OpenStreetMap data using R. OpenStreetMap India Mappy Hours.
Software Contributions
Govind, A. (2025). multi: Utility functions for urban morphometric analyses [Computer software]. GitHub.
Code & Data · WebsiteDemuynck, W., Derudder, B., Poorthuis, A., Van Migerode, C., Govind, A., & Xia, Y. (2024). Fusietool: An interactive tool for simulating municipal mergers in Flanders, Belgium [Computer software].
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