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Dr. Esra Suel is an Associate Professor in City Modelling at the University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) since 2024. She holds a part-time role as Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich's Future Cities Lab. Her expertise spans urban systems, environmental health, and geomatic engineering. She earned a PhD in Urban Systems and Transport Planning from Imperial College London (2016), and holds degrees from Sabanci University and the University of Michigan.
Research Interests: Dr. Suel focuses on the intersection of urban environments and health, leveraging street-view imagery and machine learning to assess greenspace impacts on cardiovascular health, mental well-being, and urban inequality. Her work also explores transport equity, air quality modeling, and sustainable city indicators. Recent studies include large-scale slum mapping in Africa and global urban health benchmarking tools.
Key Contributions: Her 2025 studies link greenspace exposure to depression risk reduction in US women and reveal cardiovascular health disparities through street-level analysis. Earlier work pioneered air quality estimation via satellite imagery in data-scarce regions. She co-developed KidSat, a poverty-mapping dataset using satellite imagery.
- Awards: MRC Rutherford Fellowship (2018)
- Labs: CASA's Urban Analytics Lab, Future Cities Lab (ETH Zurich)
- Grants: Wellcome Trust-funded Healthy Cities project, MRC funding
Her interdisciplinary approach bridges geospatial technologies with public health, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 11.
