Daniel Felsenstein is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His fields of interest are economic geography, regional science and urban and regional economics. His work uses the tools of dynamic simulation modeling and spatial econometrics. Current research projects relate to the incorporating maching learning into agent based modeling, spatio-temporal and agentr based modeling of Covid-19 contagion and diffusion in cities, simulating urban resilience to large scale shocks, dynamics of change in housing markets and estimating a spatial general equilibrium model for Israel. He has worked in the areas of local economic development, landuse-transportation modeling, measuring regional income disparities, local labor market processes, dynamics of regional housing markets, agent-based modeling of disasters and spatio-temporal epidemiology. This research has resulted in nearly 150 published papers and 6 books on these and other related topics.
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has served as Chair of the Department of Geography 2016-2020, Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, 2002-2010 and Academic Director of the Center for Computational Geography, Department of Geography, Hebrew University, 2009-2015 and academic director of the MA program in Smart Cities and Urban Informatics, 2020-2023. In terms of service in National and International Organizations he has served as a member of the National Council of Surveyors and Land Appraisers 2004-2013, Chair of the National Committee for Geography, Ministry of Education, 2012-2016 and as a consultant/national expert to the OECD Programme on Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED). He is currently co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis (Taylor and Francis).
