Katarzyna Kopczewska is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland, Faculty of Economic Sciences. She is a quantitative economist focusing on regional socio-economic development in a spatial context. Her research includes spatial modelling of geo-localised economic processes. She conducts methodological research on the implementation of machine learning methods to spatial analysis and combining them with classical spatial statistics and econometrics. She is a member of the European board (EOC) of the European Regional Science Association, Councillor-At-Large of the Regional Science Association International, and Editor of Spatial Economic Analysis and Networks and Spatial Economics.