Gonzalo Peraza

I am a Research Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, affiliated with the Center for the Future of Cities and the School of Government and Public Transformation. I study cities as complex systems, drawing on statistical physics, urban modeling, and geospatial data science. I want to understand how cities work, meaning the regularities and mechanisms behind their form and dynamics, as a path toward understanding social systems more broadly. I also try to put that understanding to use, turning it into evidence for planning and public policy.

My recent work covers urban expansion and the population loss of Mexican city centers, income segregation where data are scarce, and urban heat vulnerability, and I have built planning tools for Latin American cities with the Inter-American Development Bank. I came to cities from physics, with a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cinvestav, and I teach graduate courses on data science for public policy.

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