Eric Koomen is associate professor at the Department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Eric graduated in Physical Geography and got his first working experience with GIS at the nature conservation section of a water company. Subsequently he worked as a GIS-adviser at the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Water Management where he focussed on the use of GIS for environmental impact assessment. He managed projects for impact assessment, data collection and data construction. His work also involved the adaptation and construction of GIS-tools. In the past few years Eric worked part-time at the Geodan Next Company where he managed projects for regional authorities that inform planners about likely spatial developments, their potential impacts and possible policy alternatives.
He is editorial board member of: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (since 2015), Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (since 2017) and Landscape and Urban Planning (since 2019).
