I am a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, currently diving into spatial data for the Mapping Ambient Vulnerabilities project. My work connects the dots between inequalities, the environment, health, and spatial mobility.

My academic journey is driven by a simple fact: I love to learn. I bring that playful curiosity to my mapping research every day, focusing on how people navigate, perceive, and interact with the complex spaces around them.

Career

 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer in Geographic Data Science

University of Bristol

2025 – Present Bristol
 
 
 
 
 

Research Associate

University of Bristol

2024 – Present Bristol
 
 
 
 
 

Geospatial Analyst & Data Scientist

Zsah

2022 – 2022 Bristol
 
 
 
 
 

Geospatial Analyst

Arup

2019 – 2019 Bristol

Recent Posts

The Spatial Mismatch of Empty Homes and Housing Pressure

A spatial look at whether England’s housing crisis is really about too few homes, or too many empty rooms in the wrong places.
May 7, 2026 21 min read housing, Python, inequalities

Retrieving custom networks from OSM using Pyrosm and translating to Pandana and NetworkX

Here I show you an easy trick to retrieve completely custom networks from OSM, using Pyrosm, without extra packages and unnecessary …
Jun 22, 2022 7 min read Python, Pyrosm, OSM, Distances, Network, Geospatial

Google Summer of Code 2021

Here I post about the progress, struggle and success of working on project under GSoC 2021
May 29, 2021 22 min read Python

Calculating Walking distance in Python. Networkx vs Pandana.

This post will show you how you can calculate walking distances along OSM road network in matter of miliseconds.
Mar 12, 2021 11 min read Python, Google Colab, Distances, Network, Geospatial

Distribution of Children homes in Czech Republic

Extracting data from XML and geocoding adresses and creating maps
Jan 1, 2021 21 min read geocoding, Python, XML
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Recent Publications and research

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Mapping Ambient Vulnerabilities: Commuters’ Exposure to Air Pollution: Preliminary Study

A preliminary large-scale simulation of commuting-related air pollution exposure across England, linking network routing, air pollution …
PDF

Indoor air quality vulnerability along the urban-rural continuum: A neighbourhood classification of exposure for England and Wales

A neighbourhood-scale classification of vulnerability to poor indoor air quality across England and Wales, integrating environmental, …
DOI Journal article

A Spatial Typology of Energy (In)Efficiency in the Private Rental Sector in England and Wales Using Energy Performance Certificates

A spatial classification of energy inefficiency in the private rental sector in England and Wales using EPC data, k-means clustering …
DOI Journal article

Uneven ambient futures, Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales

Despite being one of the key mechanisms via which people are exposed (or not) to uncomfortable or dangerous ambient environments—the …
Link to paper Caitlin Robinson Project website

Proximity and Distance Decay, chapter in GIS&T Body of Knowledge

Distance decay is an essential concept in geography. At its core, distance decay describes how the relationship between two entities …
Link to the chapter

Modelling Urban Flows, Spatial Effects in Origin-Destination data

This paper is an introduction of preliminary research for Ph.D. thesis ‘Machine Learning methods for Urban Flows, spatial effects …
PDF Levi Wolf

Form and Function in Spatial Interaction - A New Approach to Spatial Structure

Gravity Spatial Interaction Models have been used consistently to model migration, commuting, and trade. However, classic gravity …
PDF Presentation Recording

Slides

Work in progress

May 13, 2026

Mapping ambient vulnerabilities; Commuters’ exposure to air pollution; Preliminary study.

Mapping Ambient Vulnerabilities Lenka Hasova Quantitative Spatial Science group Department of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol LinkedIn GitHub email@example.com Website: ambient-vulnerability.co.uk .columns { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 1rem; } Air Quality vulnerability through peoples lives 3 parts: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptability makes upvulnerability 3 stages: it home, on the move, at work 3 outputs: journal article policy briefing, interactive online outputs