Stewart Fotheringham

Biography

A. Stewart Fotheringham is Krafft Professor of Spatial Data Science in the Department of Geography at Florida State University where he is also Director of the Spatial Data Science Center (SDSC) in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.

He has been awarded over $15m in research funding, published 12 books and over 250 research papers. He has over 45,000 citations and an H-index of 80. In 2023 he was recognized as one of the top 1% most influential scientists in the World by the Web of Science. He is a recipient of the Award for Outstanding Achievement by the Modeling Geographical Systems Commission of the International Geographical Union, the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chinese Professional Association of GIS and the Distinguished Research Honors Award by the American Association of Geographers. His research interests are in the analysis of spatial data sets using statistical, mathematical and computational methods. He is well-known in the fields of spatial interaction modeling and local statistical analysis and he has substantive interests in health data, crime patterns, retailing and migration.

Education

Ph.D. Geography, 1980, McMaster University, Canada

M.A. Geography, 1978, McMaster University, Canada

B.Sc. (Honours) Geography, 1976, Aberdeen University, Scotland

Awards & Honors

Elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2013.

Elected Member of Academia Europaea, 2016

Elected Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK, 2013

Appointed as Regents’ Professor (the highest award at ASU restricted to 3% of Full Professors) at universities in Arizona, 2019.

American Association of Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award, 2019

Selected Publications

Fotheringham, A.S., Oshan, T.M. &  Li, Z. (2024) Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression: Theory and Practice CRC Press (Routledge): Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781032564227  

Fotheringham, A.S., Brunsdon, C.. & Charlton, M.E. (2002) Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships xii and 269 pages, Wiley: Chichester. ISBN 0-471-49616-2

Fotheringham, A.S. & Li, Z. “Measuring the Unmeasurable: Models of Geographic Context” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(10): 2269-2286, 2023.

Fotheringham A.S., Yang, W., & Kang, W. “Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 107(6): 1247-1265, 2017.

Fotheringham, A.S. “A New Set of Spatial Interaction Models: The Theory of Competing Destinations”, Environment and Planning A, 15(1), 15-36, 1983.