Research

PhD Research

The PhD project focuses on improving the Dutch labour market forecasts by assessing the reliability and exploring the potential of using additional data and applying different estimation techniques.

Publications

Unfolding population resilience and socioeconomic disparities in response to cyclones in India: Insights from mobile phone data

Journal: Progress in Disaster Science Issue: Volume 31, October 2026, 100615

Issue: Volume 31, October 2026, 100615

Authors: Roy Meijer, Timur Naushirvanov, Ziyue Zhu, Yijie Zhou, Yueyang Yi

Highlights:

  • High-frequency mobile phone data reveal anticipatory responses to cyclones in India.

  • Estimates show post-landfall declines and a gradual return of population presence.

  • Socioeconomic heterogeneity: richer areas show steeper declines and slower rebounds.

  • Community detection analysis indicates that relocations are mainly intra-community.

  • Findings show the need for equity-informed planning and the use of mobile phone data.

Conferences

ELMI-BIR 2026

During the 2026 ELMI-BIR conference on October 12 & 13 in Maastricht, the Netherlands, I presented a poster title: “Improving Occupational Expansion Demand Forecasts by Using Mixed-Frequency Data”.

De Nederlandse Arbeidsmarktdag 2026

The Dutch labour market day (De Nederlandse Arbeidsmarktdag (NAD)) is a national conference on labour and the labour market aiming at policy makers, practicioners and research. The NAD2026 took place in Amersfoort, the Netherlands on October, 8th 2026.

I contributed to the session on demand and supply, by presenting a summary of the labour market forecasts and emphasizing the policy relevance. The presentation was titled: “The usefulness of labour market forecasts: Improvements and innovations”.

ISF 2026

The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, the ISF provides many excellent opportunities for networking, learning, and fun.

The 46th International Symposium on Forecasting will take place June 28 – July 1, 2026 in Montreal, Canada.

During the conference, I participated in two workshops: (1) “Forecasting with Temporal Hierarchies” and (2) “How to make sure that your forecasts make sense? Workshop on forecast evaluation”.

Furthermore, I contributed to the conference by presenting an ongoing project titled: “Improving occupational expansion demand forecasts by using higher-frequency data”.

NetMob 2024

The NetMob conference is a primary conference on the analysis of mobile phone datasets in social, urban, societal and industrial problems.

NetMob 2024 took place on 7-9 October 2024 at the World Bank Group in Washington D.C., U.S.A.

As part of the conference Data Challenge, we were invited to present a poster.

Workshops

BIBB-IAB-ROA Workshop 2025

Joint workshop of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), held in Bonn on June 2 & 3, 2025.