Peter Groote

Professor Peter Groote is a renowned academic at the University of Groningen, affiliated with the Faculty of Spatial Sciences and the Urban and Regional Studies Institute. His research focuses on Historical GIS, Heritage Studies, Economic History, and Deathscapes. He has supervised multiple PhD candidates, including studies on heritage site management, municipal amalgamations, and post-disaster tourism regeneration in Beirut. Groote holds qualifications in university teaching (UTQ, 2012) and senior teaching (STQ, 2017), and was honored as Teacher of the Year (2007).

• Key collaborations: Italian railway GIS projects with Carlo Ciccarelli, studies on geoheritage in China, and urban policy analysis in the Netherlands.
• Publications span 177 works, including influential datasets on Italian railway networks and analyses of sacred heritage sites.

His work contributes to UN SDGs through research on sustainable urban development and cultural heritage preservation.