Summary
Ghislain Geniaux is a research scientist at INRA and leader of the UrbanSIMUL team in Avignon, specializing in land markets, land-use change modeling, spatial econometrics and evaluation of territorial policies. Since 1999 he has led applied research programs and co-developed UrbanSIMUL, a SaaS platform used to analyze over five million parcels for developable land, zoning simulation and policy impact assessment across France. He combines rigorous econometric and GIS methods to build statistical models of land availability and urbanization probability, and his work links national administrative data, web-scraped open data, and user-uploaded datasets into historical spatial databases. Ghislain holds a doctorate in economics from Aix-Marseille and brings both deep academic expertise and practical tool-building experience, uniquely blending spatial econometrics with production-grade geospatial services.
8 years of coding experience
DEA, Economie mathématique et économétrie, DEA, Economie mathématique et économétrie at GREQAM
Doctorat, Economics, Doctorat, Economics at Aix-Marseille Université