Paul KILGARRIFF is a post-doc working on the FNR CORE project "SCALE-IT-UP". Paul has an economics background with a particular interest in the spatial analysis of land use, housing, commuting and the environment. He previously worked as a post-doc at Teagasc the Irish agricultural research agency. He completed his PhD in Geocomputation at the National Centre for geocomputation (NCG), Maynooth University in 2017. Paul is also an adjunct lecturer with the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Paul’s current research agenda is focusing on analyising the gradient profiles of the both the artificial land use and population density for 600 European cities utilising a scaling methodology. This research examines the change in artificial land use over time. Another element of the research involves creating a continuous definition of a city’s extent.