About the Author

Luc Anselin is the Founding Director of the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago, where he is also Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College. He previously held faculty appointments at Arizona State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Texas at Dallas, the Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and The Ohio State University. He also was a visiting professor at Brown University and MIT. He holds a PhD in Regional Science from Cornell University.

Over the past four decades, he has developed new methods for exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometrics, including the widely used local indicators of spatial autocorrelation. His 1988 Spatial Econometrics text has been cited some 17,000 times. He has implemented these methods into software, including the original SpaceStat software, as well as GeoDa, and as part of the Python PySAL library for spatial analysis.

His work has been recognized by several awards, including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.