Dr. Jonatan Almagor is a postdoc researcher at the Urban Vitality Lab. He is currently involved in lab projects on mobility and walkability in the city. Before joining the lab, he was a researcher at the social and public health sciences unit at Glasgow University, Scotland, where he studied the complex interactions between people, environment and their impact on health and wellbeing by using agent-based models. His projects included simulating children’s daily physical activity in an urban environment; and evaluating the impact of a contact tracing app on the spread of Covid. Jonatan completed his B.A at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he went on to obtain his Masters and PhD at Tel-Aviv University. In his PhD research, he investigated urban dynamics and developed an agent-based model that explored the outcomes of interactions between urban developers and planning regulators. He worked as a researcher at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical-Centre investigating the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, using agent-based and mathematical models.  Although as a researcher he spends most of his time in front of a computer, his real passion is outdoors climbing and long distance running.