Associate
P.A.R.I.S
Campus Condorcet
5, cours des Humanités
93322 Aubervilliers cedex
natalia.zdanowska@parisgeo.cnrs.fr
n.zdanowska@ucl.ac.uk
natalia.zdanowska@liser.lu
Natalia Zdanowska holds a PhD in Geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her thesis dealt with spatial integration of cities in Central and Eastern Europe in the light of firm, trade and air transportation networks since 1989.
Between August 2018 and January 2021 Natalia Zdanowska was a research fellow at CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), University College London, where she is still an Honorary Research Fellow. She worked in terms of "The UK Regions Digital Research Facility" project lead by Alan Penn, Philip Treleaven, Paul Longley, Mike Batty and Alan Wilson
Since February 2021 Natalia Zdanowska is a research associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). In terms of the "Social Observatory of the city of Luxembourg" projet led by Frédéric Durand, she questions urban social inequalities in the city of Luxembourg in a quantitative and qualitative approach
EDUCATION
2019 Qualification to candidate to the fonctions of Maître de conférence (Lecturer) in France, section 23, Physical, Human, Economic and Regional Geography.
2014-2018, PhD in Geography, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Supervisors : Anne Bretagnolle and Grzegorz Węcławowicz.
2014-2013 University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master’s degree in Urban Geography and Spatial Analysis (Master 2 Sciences des Territoires-Géoprisme). Thesis project supervised by professor Anne Bretagnolle on spatial integration of central European cities through firm, trade and air transportation networks since 1989.
2013-2012 University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master’s degree in Applied Economics (Master 2 Recherche Économie Appliquée). Master’s thesis supervised by professors Pierre Kopp and Rémy Prud’homme on economic analysis of the oil and gas sectors in Canada, Norway, Russia and UK, their taxation system and rent repartition.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 Vanhoof, M., Godoy-Lorite, A., Murcio, R., Iacopini, I., Zdanowska, N., Raimbault, J., Milton, R., Arcaute, E., Batty M. « Using Foursquare data to reveal spatial and temporal patterns in London », winners of the Foursquare Future Cities Challenge, NetMob conference, 8-10 July 2019, Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, Oxford (United Kingdom)
2016-2017 Mobility grant, Collège des Écoles doctorales, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2014-2017, doctoral contrat, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, fellowship Paris Nouveau Monde, Hesam (Haute Etudes Sorbonne Arts et Métiers)
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
Since september 2018 Member of Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography editorial team
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since February 2021, Reseach Associate in Geography, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
August 2018- January 2021, Research Associate in Quantitative Urban and Economic Geography, University College London, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
2017-2018 Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant (A.T.E.R.) at University Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 
Courses: "Data analysis", "Statistics", "Globalisation and Territories’’ (undergraduate students)
2016-2017 Teaching Assistant at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Courses: "Statistics", "Globalisation and Territories’’ (undergraduate students)
2015-2016 Teaching Assistant at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Course: "Globalisation and Territories’’ (undergraduate students)
PAPERS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
Zdanowska, N. 2020a "Exploring cities of Central and Eastern Europe within transnational company networks: the core-periphery effect", Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, online first
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Zdanowska, N. 2020b "L’Europe centrale et orientale au sein des réseaux mondialisés de l’économie-monde : quelle intégration interne ?", Belgeo: Revue belge de Géographie, 4
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Zdanowska, N. 2020c "Dynamiques des villes centre-est européennes face aux transformations politico-économiques (1961–2011)", Cybergeo : Revue européenne de géographie [En ligne], Espace, Société, Territoire, 936
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Zdanowska, N., Rozenblat, C., Pumain, D. 2020 "Evolution of urban hierarchies under globalization in Western and Eastern Europe", Regional Statistics, 10(2), 1–23.
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Guérois, M., Bretagnolle, A., Gourdon, P., Pavard, A., Zdanowska, N. 2019 "A harmonized database to follow the demographic trajectories of European cities, the TRADEVE database (Demographic Trajectories of European Cities)", Cybergeo : Revue européenne de géographie [En ligne], Espace, Société, Territoire, Data papers, 892
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Guérois, M., Bretagnolle, A., Gourdon, P., Pavard, A., Zdanowska, N. 2019 "Following the population of European urban areas in the last half century (1961-2011): the TRADEVE database", Cybergeo : Revue européenne de géographie [En ligne], Espace, Société, Territoire, 891
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Zdanowska, N. 2017, "Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment Across the National Urban Systems in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 2013", Geographia Polonica, vol. 90, No. 2, 5-24
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Zdanowska, N. 2016 "Métropolisation et système de villes en Pologne depuis 1960" (Metropolisation and system of cities in Poland since 1960), Revue Géographique de l’Est, vol. 56, No. 3-4
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Zdanowska, N. 2015 "Metropolisation and the Evolution of Systems of Cities in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Since 1950", Deturope – The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism, vol. 7, No. 2, 45-64
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PARTICIPATION IN PROJETS
2021-2024 Project "The Social Observatory of the City of Luxembourg", coordinated by F. Durand
2019-2020 "The nested structure of geoindustrial clusters: comparing London and Paris" project, Cities partnerships Programme Fund, University College London-CNRS, coordinated by E. Arcaute et C. Cottineau
2018-2021 The UK Regions Digital Research Facility project within the Urban Dynamics Lab (UDL), coordinated by Alan Penn, Philip Treleaven, Paul Longley, Mike Batty and Alan Wilson. This project is funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) for 2015-2020
2014-2016 TRADEVE (Trajectoires Démographique des Villes Européenne) project, coordinated by Anne Bretagnolle. This project was funded by Université Paris 1 for 2014-2016.
Bretagnolle A., Guérois M., Pavard A., Gourdon P., Zdanowska N., Lizzi L., 2016, Demographical Trajectories of European urban areas (1961-2011) (TRADEVE), rapport de recherche, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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WORKING GROUPS MEMBER
F.M.R (Flux, Matrices, Réseaux). Access to website
Connaissance de l’Europe médiane. Access to website
SESSION ORGANISATION AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Finance, O., Zdanowska, N. (2017) European territories within the ‘Global Production Network’: between integration and disparities, Special session S6, Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (ASRDLF) conference, 5-7th July, Athens (Greece)
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PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (with a selection comitee)
Zdanowska, N. 2020 "Is the Northern Powerhouse Strategy maximising the power of the North of England? An approach by urban ownership links between firms", Rethinking clusters, International Conference on Cluster Research, 23–24 November, Valencia, Spain
Raimbault, J., Zdanowska, N., Arcaute, E. 2020 "A generative model for urban firm networks", NetSci conference, 21–25 September, Rome, Italy
Zdanowska, N., Godoy-Lorite, A., Arcaute, E. 2019 "Are start-ups significant determinants of economic attraction ? The case of Greater Manchester", Regional Studies Association Conference, 14-15 November, London, United Kingdom
Zdanowska, N., Arcaute, E. 2019 "Manchester’s regional role: ownership networks of firms since 2010", Complex Systems Society conference, 30 September - 4 October, Singapore
Raimbault, J., Zdanowska, N. 2019 "An agent-based model for city networks based on interactions between firms", Complex Systems Society conference, 30 September - 4 October, Singapore
Zdanowska, N. 2019 "Smart cities, planning, urban dynamics and analytics: QUANT and VILO research projects at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis", International Conference on Intelligent Environments, International University of Rabat, 24-27 June, Rabat (Morocco)
Zdanowska, N. 2019 "Manchester within multinational networks of firms", International Conference on Intelligent Environments, International University of Rabat, 24-27 June, Rabat (Morocco)
Zdanowska, N. 2018 "Economic polarization and transnational investment networks: a Central and Eastern European evidence", Complex Systems Society conference, 23-28 septembre, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Zdanowska, N. 2017 "East-Central European cities within global production networks in 2013", Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (ASRDLF) conference, 5-7th July, Athens (Greece)
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Zdanowska, N. 2017 "Towards an integrated Central and Eastern Europe? Study of investments networks in 2013", American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 5-9th April, Boston (United States of America)
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Zdanowska, N. 2014 "Spatial integration of Central Eastern European cities through air transportation, multi-national companies and trade network links since 1989: cases of Hungary and Poland", Hungarian Regional Science Association, 12nd Annual International Meeting, 27-29th November, University of Pannonia, Faculty of Business and Economics, Veszprém (Hungary)
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Zdanowska, N. 2014, ’’Metropolisation and system of cities in Poland since 1950", international conference "Villes de l’Est, villes de l’Ouest, quels processus spatiaux?"organised by professor Pierre Thorez, IDEES UMR 6266, Université du Havre, 29-31 october, Le Havre (France)
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PRESENTATIONS AT SEMINARS
Zdanowska, N. (2020) "A multi-scalar approach of firms in cities", Urban Clusters workshop, Cities Partnership programme, 17th February, London, United Kingdom
Zdanowska, N. (2019) "Measuring economic performance of a city : the case of Manchester", workshop of the Mac Arthur conference, University College London, MacArthur Foundation, 17th September, London, United Kindom
Zdanowska, N. 2017 "Łańcuchy kapitałowo-inwestycyjne w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej" (Investment capital chains in Central and Eastern Europe), seminar of the Department of Urban Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, 22th May 2017, Warsaw, Poland
Zdanowska, N. 2017 "Insertion des villes d’Europe centrale et orientale dans l’économie-monde: une analyse des réseaux d’entreprises" (Integration of Central and Eastern European cities into the world-economy: an analysis of firm networks), seminar of P.A.R.I.S (Pour l’avancement de la recherche sur l’intégration spatiale) department, UMR Geographie-cités, 21th April 2017, Paris, France
Zdanowska, N. 2016 "Système de villes et intégration des pays d’Europe centrale dans l’économie-monde : une analyse par les réseaux d’entreprises et flux aériens transnationaux" (System of cities and integration of countries of Central Europe into the world-economy: an analysis through firm and air transportation networks since 1989), seminar of the working group « Flux, Matrices, Réseaux », UMR Géographie-cités, équipe P.A.R.I.S, 22nd November 2016, Paris
Zdanowska, N. 2016 "Relations fonctionnelles des villes et entreprises en Pologne" (Functional relations of cities and firms in Poland), Franco-Polish conference of Geography, Polish Library of Paris and Scientific Center in Paris of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 3rd June 2016, Paris
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Zdanowska, N. 2016 "Functional relations of cities and firms in Central and Eastern Europe", seminar of the Department of Urban Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, 23th May 2016, Warsaw, Poland
Zdanowska, N. 2016 "Central and Eastern European cities in the light of firm’s and air transportation networks", Journée des Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Institut de Géographie, 7 April 2016, Institute of Geography, Paris
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Zdanowska, N. 2015 "Europeanisation of Central and Eastern European Cities throught firm and air transportation network links since 1989", symposium Cities of Central and Eastern Europe in a long perspective: plurality of forms, issues of europeanisation , organized by Sociétés Plurielles, interdisciplinary programme of Université Sorbonne-Paris-Cités, 26th November 2015, ENSAPVS, Paris
Zdanowska, N. 2015 "Spatial integration of Central Eastern European system of cities through economic and air transportation network links since 1989", seminar of the Department of Urban Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, 25th May 2015, Warsaw, Poland
Zdanowska, N. 2015 "Evolution of system of cities in Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania since 1950", national symposium, 28-29th March 2015, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Bucharest, Romania
Zdanowska, N. 2015 "System of cities in Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic and firm networks since 1989", Doctoral studies day organised by the CNRS group ’’Knowledge of Central Europe" (’’ GDR Connaissance de l’Europe Médiane’’), 20th March 2015, Institut d’Etude Slaves, Paris
Zdanowska, N. 2015 "Spatial integration of Central Eastern European system of cities through air transportation, multi-national companies and trade network links since 1989", Doctorales, seminar for young researchers, Association of Regional Science of French Language (Association de Science Régionale De Langue Française), 2nd-4th february 2015, Université Paris-Est
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FIELDWORKS
June 2015 Fielwork in Sofia, Bulgaria, Institute of Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics and Chamber of Commerce; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis.
May 2015 Fielwork in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Geography and Economics, University of Ljubljana and Institute of Urban Planning of Slovenia in Ljubljana
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Finance, Chamber of Commerce and Bank of Slovenia for the thesis; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography and economics with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis.
May 2015 Fielwork in Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Geography, University of Zagreb.
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Finance, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Croatia for the thesis; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography and economics with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis.
April 2015 Fieldwork in Bratislava, Slovakia, Faculty of Geography, University of Bratislava.
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Finance, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovakia for the thesis; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography and economics with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis.
March 2015 Fieldwork in Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Geography and Economics, University of Bucharest, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest.
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Finance, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania for the thesis; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography and economics with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis; Presentation at the national annual symposium at the University of Bucharest.
January 2015 Fieldwork in Prague, Czech Republic, Faculty of Geography, Charles University of Prague, and Ostrava, Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Ostrava.
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Transport, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Czech Republic for the thesis; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography and economics with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis.
November 2014 Fieldwork in Budapest, Hungary, Institute of Geography, Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest.
Collecting information and databases at the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Transport, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hungary for the thesis; Meetings and interviews with professors in geography and economics with the aim of confirming the database on population in Central and Eastern Europe under construction for the thesis; Presentation at the annual meeting of the Regional Sciences Association of Hungary in Veszprem.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Urban Geography
System of cities
Network Analysis
Central and Eastern Europe
Post-socialist countries of the European Union