In the scientific field, he is researcher in charge of the R&D group of Territorial Policy, Environmental and Infrastructure Planning ( and Director of the Biyectiva GIS Business Professorship of the UPCT. He is the author of more than 50 publications in international research journals and 15 books, being part of the 2% most cited authors in the world according to the list published by Stanford University. He has participated in several European research projects and directed more than 20 final degree projects and doctoral theses related to GIS applied to Environmental Sciences, Urban Planning, Infrastructure Management and Natural Hazards diagnosis. He and belongs to the editorial board of several international scientific journals and regularly works as a reviewer in the main scientific journals on urban planning and environmental studies areas, as well as as an evaluator of scientific projects for public research organizations in several countries from all ove
EDUCATION
Architect and Civil Engineer. PhD in Urban Planning and Territorial Management from the Technical University of Valencia. MBA by the ESIC Business School of Valencia and MsC in Concessions and Public-Private Collaboration of the Technical University of Madrid. Associated Professor responsible for various courses related to territorial policy and environmental & infrastructure planning at the Faculty Civil Engineering of the UPCT since 2010. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of California Berkeley (USA), Alcalá de Henares (Spain), CEPES (Mexico) and Cyprus University of Technology. He is currently an invited professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through a Fulbright grant from the United States government.
Towards new models based on the promotion of proximity mobility planning for the implementation of LEZs in medium-sized cities in Spain: the case study of Cartagena SGA Veintimilla, MY Martínez Journal of Urban Mobility 9, 100234 , 2026 2026
Flooding risk in the context of climate change crisis: new urban and land use planning approaches vs traditional hydrological ones S Garcia-Ayllon MDPI , 2025 2025
Effects of the phenomenon of diffuse territorial anthropization in the context of climate change on the Mediterranean coast during the last decade: from the environmental … S Garcia-Ayllon, A Franco MDPI , 2025 2025
The Paradigm Shift in Scientific Interest on Flood Risk: From Hydraulic Analysis to Integrated Land Use Planning Approaches Á Franco, S García-Ayllón Water 17 (15), 2276 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Territorial Spatial Evolution Process and Its Ecological Resilience, volume II X Ouyang, J Pilz, XC Wang, SGA Veintimilla Frontiers Media SA , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Territorial spatial evolution process and its ecological resilience, volume II S García-Ayllón, J Pilz Frontiers in Environmental Science 13, 1601067 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
There is no B planet: relevant experiences and case studies on future challenges in sustainable urban planning & territorial management S Garcia‐Ayllon, JLM i García There is no B planet: relevant experiences and case studies on future … , 2025 2025
Urban growth patterns of Mediterranean cities and their flood risk: possible applications of NBS in the context of climate change S Garcia-Ayllon MDPI , 2024 2024
Territorial Spatial Evolution Process and Its Ecological Resilience X Ouyang, XC Wang, SGA Veintimilla, J Pilz Frontiers Media SA , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Territorial spatial evolution process and its ecological resilience S García-Ayllón, J Pilz Frontiers in Environmental Science 12, 1373672 , 2024 2024 Citations: 8
Implementation of Low Emissions Zones (LEZ) through soft traffic calming strategies: the case study of Cartagena (Spain) S García-Ayllón, M Yepes SUPTM 2024 con-ference proceedings , 2024 2024
Informe C. Gestión sostenible de zonas costeras R Bhargava, C Bordehore Fontanet, Á Bujosa Bestard, ... Informe C. Gestión sostenible de zonas costeras , 2024 2024
Análisis del modelo urbanístico de la Región de Murcia desde la perspectiva de la vulnerabilidad urbana frente a la inundabilidad: Una visión retrospectiva del planeamiento … Á Franco García 2024
Second International Future Challenges in Sustainable UrbanPlanning & Territorial Management: Proceedings of the SUPTM 2024 conference SGA Veintimilla, JLM García Second International Future Challenges in Sustainable UrbanPlanning … , 2024 2024
Implementation of low emissions zones (LEZ) through soft traffic calming strategies: the case study of Cartagena (Spain) S García-Ayllón Veintimilla, M Yepes Martínez Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena , 2024 2024
A Minimum Cost Design Approach for Steel Frames Based on a Parallelized Firefly Algorithm and Parameter Control G Sánchez-Olivares, A Tomás, S García-Ayllón Applied Sciences 13 (21), 11801 , 2023 2023 Citations: 3
Interplay between climate change, land use change, and human health: opportunities and challenges S García-Ayllón Veintimilla Frontiers in Earth Science 11, 1296003 , 2023 2023
Analysis of correlation between anthropization phenomena and landscape values of the territory: A GIS framework based on spatial statistics S García-Ayllón, G Martínez ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12 (8), 323 , 2023 2023 Citations: 17
Challenges in sustainable urban planning and territorial management for the XXI century SGA Veintimilla, JL Miralles-Garcia, B Sowińska-Świerkosz Frontiers in Environmental Science 11 , 2023 2023
Challenges in sustainable urban planning and territorial management for the XXI century S García-Ayllón Veintimilla, JL Miralles-Garcia, B Sowińska-Świerkosz Frontiers in Environmental Science 11, 1252835 , 2023 2023 Citations: 8
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Rapid development as a factor of imbalance in urban growth of cities in Latin America: A perspective based on territorial indicators S García-Ayllón Habitat international 58, 127-142 , 2016 2016.0 Citations: 132
Urban transformations as an indicator of unsustainability in the P2P mass tourism phenomenon: The Airbnb case in Spain through three case studies S Garcia-Ayllon Sustainability 10 (8), 2933 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 126
New strategies to improve governance in territorial management: evolving from “smart cities” to “smart territories” S Garcia-Ayllon, JL Miralles Procedia Engineering 118, 3-11 , 2015 2015.0 Citations: 101
Urban transformations as indicators of economic change in post-communist Eastern Europe: Territorial diagnosis through five case studies S Garcia-Ayllon Habitat International 71, 29-37 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 80
La Manga case study: Consequences from short-term urban planning in a tourism mass destiny of the Spanish Mediterranean coast S García-Ayllón Cities 43, 141-151 , 2015 2015.0 Citations: 72
The Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of the Mar Menor as a model for the future in the comprehensive management of enclosed coastal seas S Garcia-Ayllon Ocean & Coastal Management 166, 82-97 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 58
Geographic information system (GIS) analysis of impacts in the tourism area life cycle (TALC) of a Mediterranean resort S Garcia‐Ayllon International Journal of Tourism Research 18 (2), 186-196 , 2016 2016.0 Citations: 53
Retro-diagnosis methodology for land consumption analysis towards sustainable future scenarios: Application to a mediterranean coastal area S García-Ayllón Journal of Cleaner Production 195, 1408-1421 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 52
Geostatistical analysis of the spatial correlation between territorial anthropization and flooding vulnerability: Application to the DANA phenomenon in a Mediterranean watershed S Garcia-Ayllon, J Radke Applied Sciences 11 (2), 809 , 2021 2021.0 Citations: 51
Integrated management in coastal lagoons of highly complexity environments: Resilience comparative analysis for three case-studies S García-Ayllón Ocean & Coastal Management 143, 16-25 , 2017 2017.0 Citations: 49
New strategies to improve co-management in enclosed coastal seas and wetlands subjected to complex environments: Socio-economic analysis applied to an international recovery … S García-Ayllón Sustainability 11 (4), 1039 , 2019 2019.0 Citations: 45
The contribution of MCDM to SUMP: The case of Spanish cities during 2006–2021 S Garcia-Ayllon, E Hontoria, N Munier International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (1), 294 , 2021 2021.0 Citations: 41
Diagnosis of complex coastal ecological systems: Environmental GIS analysis of a highly stressed Mediterranean lagoon through spatiotemporal indicators S García-Ayllón Ecological Indicators 83, 451-462 , 2017 2017.0 Citations: 39
Polytechnic University of Cartagena SGA Veintimilla Spain , 0 Citations: 36
Estimation of the buildings seismic vulnerability: A methodological proposal for planning Ante-Earthquake scenarios in urban areas JL Ródenas, S García-Ayllón, A Tomás Applied Sciences 8 (7), 1208 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 34
GIS assessment of mass tourism anthropization in sensitive coastal environments: Application to a case study in the Mar Menor Area S García-Ayllón Sustainability 10 (5), 1344 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 34
The economic sustainability in urban planning: case La Manga JL Miralles, S Garcia-Ayllon WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 173, 279-290 , 2013 2013.0 Citations: 34
Proposal for new values of behaviour modifiers for seismic vulnerability evaluation of reinforced concrete buildings applied to Lorca (Spain) using damage data from the 2011 … A Tomás, JL Ródenas, S García-Ayllón Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 15 (9), 3943-3962 , 2017 2017.0 Citations: 30
Long-term GIS analysis of seaside impacts associated to infrastructures and urbanization and spatial correlation with coastal vulnerability in a mediterranean area S Garcia-Ayllon Water 10 (11), 1642 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 29
Coastal resilience potential as an indicator of social and morphological vulnerability to beach management F Bianco, S García-Ayllón Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 253, 107290 , 2021 2021.0 Citations: 28
