Department: Spatial Economics - SPINlab
University:   VU University Amsterdam
Faculty:        Economics and Business Administration

Dr. Jasper Dekkers is assistant professor at the Department of Spatial Economics of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His research interests include GIS and spatial economics, more specifically land and real estate prices and valuation of externalities and amenities.

Jasper has co-authored numerous papers in scientific and applied journals and books. He teaches courses on Geographical Information Systems, Geomarketing and Geologistics in various Master programmes at the Faculty of Economics. He further supervises field work for the Bachelor programme Earth & Economics and is tutor in the UNIGIS MSc programme. He, furthermore, supervises BSc and MSc theses.

Jasper graduated in Business Economics and Spatial Economics in 2001 with a thesis on location-based services and the mobile market, which was awarded by the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) Netherlands. He then completed a postgraduate course in Geographical Information Science in 2004. His PhD dissertation, completed in 2010, focused on the explanation and modelling of land and house prices, in particular at the urban fringe, and on the use of these explanatory models for future land-use modelling. From 2008 until 2013 he was coordinator of the Master of Science programme in Geographical Information Sciences (UNIGIS) at the SPINlab.