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Håvard Wallin Aagesen is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and Geography, affiliated with the Digital Geography Lab and Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences. His research leverages big data—particularly Twitter—to analyze human mobility patterns across borders.
His core research areas include Geography, Geospatial Analysis, Human Mobility, Border Studies, Tourism Geography, and Social Media Analytics. He investigates how digital traces reveal cross-border movement dynamics, functional border regions, tourism flows, and pandemic impacts through advanced geospatial techniques.
His 2020-2023 publications demonstrate pioneering applications of social media data in geographical research, showing Twitter's utility for mapping cross-border mobilities, validating tourism statistics, and assessing pandemic disruptions. These works emphasize geospatial methodologies within digital geography.
Aagesen participates in two major research projects: BORDERSPACE (2020-2025; Academy of Finland-funded) studying transnational spaces through big data, and a Kone Foundation project (2017-2023) analyzing everyday cross-border mobilities. He presents findings at international conferences on topics like activity location mapping and pandemic mobility impacts.
As a core member of the Digital Geography Lab, he collaborates with researchers from the University of Helsinki, University of Tartu, and other institutions on geospatial big data applications for border region analysis.
