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Martin Šimon

RNDr. Martin Šimon, Ph.D.

Department: Local and regional studies

Job: researcher

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Phone: 210 310 227

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Themes: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Age and Aging, Elections and Electoral Research, Lifestyle

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2012 PhD, General issues in geography, Faculty of Science, Charles University
2008 MSc, Social geography and regional development, Faculty of Science, Charles University
2006 BSc, Geography and cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Focus

residential mobility and segregations
environmental criminology
political and electoral geography
geographic information systems (GIS) in social sciences
mobilities research, counterurbanisation

Teaching Activities

Methods in Social Geography I, Methods in Social Geography II, Urban Social Geography I, Urban Social Geography II, Selected Chapters from Physical and Human Geography, (Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague)

Foreign Study Visits and Internships

2018 - Institute of Criminology, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, June

2018 - The Centre of Sociological Research (CeSO), The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, February-April

2017 - School of Geography & Sustainable Development, The University of St Andrews, Scotland, October-November

2017 - Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, February-March

2008 - Geographisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Erasmus programme, 6 months

Medallion

Martin Šimon is a geographer with research interests in population mobilities and inequalities. His research include projects on demographic change, homelessness, elections, crime and social exclusion. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Otto Wichterle Award, for outstanding early career research. Martin Šimon is principal investigator of the Czech Science Foundation grant Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens and has published in leading international journals including Cities, Geo Journal and Sociologia Ruralis. Martin Šimon is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and researcher of Urban and Regional Laboratory at Charles University.