Juan C. Duque

Juan C. Duque

RiSE group director

Office: 26-217
Phone: +574 2619500 (ext. 9993)
E-mail: jduquec1@eafit.edu.co

  • Research Interests


    • Spatially constrained clustering, industry clusters identification, spatial data analysis, open source software for spatial analysis, location modeling.


  • Editorial Appointments


    • 2009 → Editorial board member, International Regional Science Review.

    • 2011 → Editorial board member, Papers in Regional Science.

    • 2012 → Editorial board member, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.


  • Education


    • 1998 → B.A. Business Administration. National University of Colombia, Colombia.

    • 2000 → MSc. Management and Economics. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.

    • 2004 → Ph.D. Management. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Dissertation: Design of homogeneous territorial units: A methodological proposal and applications (Cum Laude).

    • 2007 → Postdoctorate. Department of Geography, San Diego State University, United States. (http://geography.sdsu.edu)


  • Awards and Honors


    • 2005 → Best dissertation award 2003-2004. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.



Publications with RiSE group

+ Publications

Journal of Regional Science

The Max-p-region problem.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

HouSI: A heuristic for the delimitation of housing submarkets and price homogeneous areas

Ecos de Economía

Evaluación de la dinámica urbana para las ciudad de Envigado.

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+ Software and tools

spatially constrained clustering algorithms

Python library with spatially constrained clustering algorithms

spatially constrained clustering algorithms

Point and click for spatial aggregation

Economic multipliers for Colombia

Interactive tool for visualizing the interindustry dynamics in Colombian economy.

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+ News

RiSE-URBAM partnership

The Center for Urban and Environmental Studies, Urbam, is a new RiSE's partner. Interesting projects are coming!

Doctor Xinyue Ye was awarded by the AAG.


Doctor Xinyue Ye, a RiSE’s academic affiliate, was awarded the Regional Development and Planning (RDPSG) Emerging Scholar by the Association of American Geographers (AAG).

SEA 2012 Organized by Centre for Regional Development and Planning - CEDEPLAR


The VI World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) Conference in Latin America

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