Amit is a senior lecturer at the department of geography and the Center for Urban Innovation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his PhD studies in 2016 at the Hebrew University after which he started a post-doctorate in the Healthy Urban Living research group at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Between the years 2018-2021 he served as a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. Amit’s research focuses on human spatial behavior in various contexts such as health, mobility and transportation, leisure and tourism. He is passionate about understanding how people behave in space, how they interact with their social and physical environments and how we can make urban environments better and people who live in them happier.

 

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