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| lao, xiaolin | | dublin | Ireland | Xiaolin LAO is a Ph.D. Candidate at the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy (APEP) and the UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab (SDL). Her research, which lies at the intersection of community resilience, vulnerable communities, and climate governance, currently seeks to understand how to address inherent vulnerabilities within the broader context of the Anthropocene. Her current empirical study in Xi'an delves into the resilience mechanisms of vulnerable communities (old communities, urban villages, and shantytowns) facing Urban Heat challenges. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Elsayed, Hani | | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | Training Consultant & Global Mentor | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Gall, Tjark | IRT SystemX / University Paris Saclay / CentraleSupélec | Paris | France | Tjark Gall is an urbanist who worked in Germany, China, Malawi, Uganda, the Netherlands, France, and Egypt. His objective is to understand how urban areas function and what has the highest impact on rendering them more sustainable and people-centred. He is currently working on his PhD to improve the design processes of complex urban systems in conditions of uncertainty. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment | | Delft | Netherlands | The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft educates students to become excellent architectural engineers from building technologists and urbanists to architects, landscape architects, real estate experts and geodata specialists, working at both national and international levels. | ViewMap |
| ElSerafi, Tamer | | Cairo | Egypt | Tamer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering, Cairo University. He is Coordinator-3 of B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering and Technology Program at the same university since 2017, Deputy Coordinator of the Double Master Degree in Urban Design at Cairo University since 2018, and the Vice Head of the Quality Assurance Unit at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University since 2017. He has been an active academic and researcher since 2008. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Huang, Jingheng | | Reading | United Kingdom | Singapore PhD student at University of Reading. Interested in (urban) citizenship, race and ethnicity, public housing and (de)segregation | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Sandberg, Siiri | | Helsinki | Finland | Siiri Sandberg (MSSc), an anthropologist by heart, is curious about cities that serve as a stage for various interests and conflicts and act as a breeding ground for new modes of citizenship. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| KUMARI, SAVITRI | | DELHI | India | SavitriKumari is a Research Scholar (PhD) in Department of Physical Planning at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Her research area is Water Governance in case of Delhi, India. She has working experience of one year in the field of planning informal settlements of Delhi. She has done her Bachelor of Planning from School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada in year 2016 and Master of Planning with Specialization in Urban Planning from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi in 2018. Her interest areas are Urban Governance and Management, Planning and Policy, and Spatial | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Calzado, Rocio | | Paris | France | Rocio Calzado is a Spanish architect and urban planner based in Paris, currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.Calzado holds a bachelor’s and a master’s in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a 2 years research master’s in Politics of Ecology at Sciences Po Paris. She collaborates as an urbanist and as a researcher (CIFRE contract) with the studio l’AUC on a housing estate transformation project in Paris, while being part of the LATTS Laboratory. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Häfner, Lukas | | Kassel | Germany | Research Assistant at Kassel University | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Mauel, Mirjam Sophie | | Aachen | Germany | Research Assistant & PhD Candidate at RWTH Aachen University | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Guo, Qing Yuan | | London | United Kingdom | Qing is a PhD student in Regional and Urban Planning studies. His research is dedicated to theorising realistic planning practice and problem-solving and developing a planner-centric agenda in planning theory. By doing so, he wishes to enable the enterprise of planning theory to become a generative platform for practical wisdom and effectively empowering the planning profession. Qing Yuan has a wide range of areas of expertise, and his current work is primarily on engaging and interviewing with planning and built environment professionals in England. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Dore, Maitri | | Gothenburg | Sweden | Postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Research related to housing, heritage, and the built environment. PhD in Built Environment Conservation, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg. Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Mumbai University, Master’s degree in Urban Studies through the Erasmus Mundus+ 4Cities programme. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Bousquet, Florence | | Paris | France | PhD Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Lidmo, Johannes | | Stockholm | Sweden | PhD Student, Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Loffing, Anna | | Vienna | Austria | PhD Student at University of Vienna | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Oldani, Giulia | | Milan | Italy | PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at DAStU, Politecnico di Milano | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Monteiro-Macedo, Ana Clara | | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | PhD and Master in Sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ), degree in History from the Catholic University of Petrópolis (2019) and postgraduate degree in Territorial Development (DTUR-UERJ). She is currently a researcher of the CASA and BONDE groups based in IESP. She has experience and interest in the areas of History of Republican Brazil, Sociology of Violence and Urban Sociology. It works mainly researching the following themes: urbanization, ideology, violence, control, surveillance and race. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Ramezani, Mina | | Palermo | Italy | Ph.D. Student in Urban, Territorial and Landscape Planning | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Gori Nocentini, Margherita | | Milan | Italy | My research focuses on urban climate adaptation policies, governance, and socio-environmental justice issues. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Grabalov, Pavel | | Ås | Norway | My primary research interests focus on interrelationships between people and their environments and how these interrelationships are acknowledged or overlooked by urban planning and development policies. Currently, I am working as a researcher at SITRAP (Centre for Integrated and Transdisciplinary Teaching in Planning) and investigating how practitioners in the field of spatial planning learn from each other. I earned my PhD degree from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and hold a master's degree in urban studies from Malmö University. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Arat, Muzaffer Ali | | Konya | Turkey | Muzaffer Ali Arat is a researcher in urban morphology and planning at Konya Technical University, and Collaborator Researcher at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA). He holds two PhD degrees, the first in Spatial Planningat University of Porto (FEUP), the second in Urban and Regional Planning at Konya Technical University. He received the ‘J.W.R Whitehand Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Urban Morphology’ for his thesis developed at the University of Porto. His research areas include urban morphology, urban planning, and cities. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Mikhail, Mirna | | Cairo | Egypt | Mirna Mikhail is a Lecturer at Coventry University's branch at The Knowledge Hub. She holds an M.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from the German University in Cairo, focusing on Cinematic Urbanism and how cities are branded through cinematic narratives. Her Bachelor's degree emphasized Experiential Architecture. Now pursuing a PhD at GUC, her research explores the cultural and visual dimensions of cities and urban design. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Marjanović, Marjan | | London | United Kingdom | Marjan Marjanović (*1991) is a PhD student and postgraduate teaching assistant at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. His doctoral research concerns the governance of circular economy transitions in shrinking cities and regions, with case studies in the Netherlands and Finland. Marjan’s research work focuses on evolutionary governance perspectives and the role of ideas in policy development, while his broader interest lies in the domain of planning for shrinking cities, strategic spatial planning, planning theory, circular economy, and urban governance and politics. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Timmers, Roos | | Belfast | United Kingdom | Marie Curie doctoral student at Queen's University Belfast | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Mahdizadeh, Ladan | | Istanbul | Turkey | M.Sc Student at ITU Urban and Regional Planning Department Architect | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Saganeiti, Lucia | | L'Aquila | Italy | Lucia Saganeiti is a researcher (RTD-A) at the CENTRO PLANECO lab, University of L'Aquila. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Allkja, Ledio | Faculty of Planning and Environment | Tirana | Albania | Ledio Allkja works as a lecturer at POLIS University in Tirana, Albania. | ViewMap |
| farash khiabani, maryam | | Istanbul | Turkey | lecturer at the University of pplied science, Iran | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Hofer, Katrin | | Zurich | Switzerland | Katrin Hofer is a PhD Candidate at the Spatial Development and Urban Policy Research group at ETH Zürich. Her PhD-project examines participatory urban governance in South Africa. She holds an MSc in Urban Development Planning from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL), and a BA in Social Work and Social Policy from the University of Fribourg. Before joining ETH Zürich, she has been engaged in applied research and development projects in Europe, Africa and Asia. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Nunez Collado, Jose | | Wellington | New Zealand | José is a Lecturer at the Wellington School of Architecture (New Zealand). Through the lenses of socio-environmental vulnerability, his research looks at the histories and contemporary implications of built environment interventions in creating, upholding, or dismantling structures of inequality and marginalisation. His research looks particularly at cities in the Global South. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Eligue, John Ceffrey | | Los Baños | Philippines | John Ceffrey L Eligue is an environmental planner and a faculty member of the Department of Community and Environmental Resource Planning, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Baños. He specializes in placemaking, climate change vulnerability, heritage conservation, urban design and land-use planning. He has a master's degree in Geography from the University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests focus on the humanistic aspect of community development and the integration of affective and cognitive expressions of individuals in planning. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Lu, Jing | | Madrid | Spain | Jing is a researcher and urban planner with projects covering 40+ cities across North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Her research interests lie in biodiversity-inclusive urban planning, landscape planning and design, environmental conservation and planning, and heritage preservation. Her career to date, with a combination of practitioner, researcher, and educator, has enabled her to bring together practical experiences and government perspectives into research and teaching through a cradle-to-grave understanding of the struggles and desires of policy plan formation. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Vercruysse, Joachim | | Gent | Belgium | Interested in the policy behind the drought issue in Flanders | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Fouladi, Aisa | | Bratislava | Slovakia | Interested in Cultural Ecosystem Services, Nature-based Solutions, and Urban Agriculture | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Fiacco, Federica | | Rome | Italy | I'm Federica, an architect investigating Sub-Saharan African fast-growing cities through the lens of urban morphologies and energy conservation. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Ateş, Burcu | | Vienna | Austria | I practice among architecture, urbanism, landscape, and conservation, blended with research, advocacy, and activism. I am currently working as a Nature and Culture Programme Expert at Yolda Initiative; Network Coordination Team of the Alliance for Mediterranean Nature and Culture and as an Affiliated Researcher at the SKuOR at TU Wien. I am interested in bridging links between space, culture and politcs by researching about everyday life, urban transformation, spatial justice, co-production, cultural landscapes, and social and spatial marginality connected with gender and migration. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Juncker, Lucie | | Villeneuve d'Ascq | France | I have been invested in the research field of electric mobility social acceptance and accessibility since an internship I did in 2022 on the topic. Currently working as a study engineer, I will be soon starting a PHD on young people’s access to electric mobilities | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Pan, Zeqiang | | Groningen | Netherlands | I am a PhD researcher at the Department of Planning and Environment, University of Groningen. My research interest focuses on the multi-level governance in local urban pluvial flood risk management: the institutional rules of local authorities and local collectives, their planning behaviors to achieve interdependencies of the formal and informal world, and the conditioning for multi-level interdependencies. Currently, I am conducting research in Guangzhou and Shenzhen (my hometown region) and Shanghai in China, and Amsterdam, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| GORGPOUR, MARYAM | | Ås | Norway | I am a Ph.D. candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM), Department of Urban and Regional Planning (BYREG). The subject of my research project is Multi-local Working from the urban planning perspective in the Oslo urban region. Being a passionate urban planner, architect, and project manager, I am eager to learn more about Urban Management and Development by studying and practicing important, yet challenging topics and trends in urbanism. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Lankadhikara, L.R.M.Nadeesha | | Bandarawela | Sri Lanka | I am a graduate student from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, specializing in "town and country planning," which is related to spatial planning. Presently, I work as a Junior Urban Planner for the "CITY-UP" JICA funded project in collaboration with the Urban Development Authority Sri Lanka and Oriental Consultants Global Pvt. Ltd. My role involves coordinating the Sri Lanka and Japan expert teams and providing support for "Capacity Development Trainings" for town planners at the Urban Development Authority Sri Lanka. Additionally, I participated in a "Disaster Management and Risk Reduc | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Loofer, Daanyaal | | Cape Town | South Africa | Hello! My name is Daanyaal. I am an urban geographer and city planner by training. Currently, I am a PhD student at the African Centre for Cities at University of Cape Town. My research focuses broadly on critical cartography, queer theory, and southern urbanism. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Llubani, Anjeza | | Graz | Austria | Graduated from the IUAV University of Venice in 2013. From then on, she has been a lecturer and a visiting fellow at different universities, including the Polytechnic University of Tirana and the Polytechnic University of Bari. In 2022, she started her Ph.D. program at the Graz University of Technology exploring the relationships between densification and sprawl with a focus on urban fragmentation in Tirana. She has presented her work at conferences and symposia across Europe, including IPAU 2022, AACCP 2022, and Where City and Territory Meet 2021, and her writings have been published in Sta | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Monteiro-Macedo, Giovanna | | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Giovanna is a PhD student at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ). Her research focuses on a comparative documental ethnography between the refugee camps in Lebanon, and Maré in Rio de Janeiro, considering the approaches and differences in the process and materiality of autoconstruction in those places. She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the same institution (IESP-UERJ) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), she also coordinates the Feminist Observatory of IR. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Privitera, Elisa | | Catania | Italy | Elisa Privitera has got her Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Planning and Design (University of Catania, Italy). She works at the intersection between community-based planning, environmental humanities, and environmental justice studies and is working on the concept of small data and toxic autobiographies. She has been recently a Fulbright visiting fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara. Elisa has been a member of the coordination team of the AESOP Young Academics Network (2020-22) and currently she is in the editorial board of PlaNext- Next Generation Planning. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Salvador, Antonio José | | Milan | Italy | Ecuadorian architect and urban planner. Obtained his architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame and his master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy. Currently pursuing a PhD at Politecnico di Milano. His work focuses on agricultural spaces in periurban areas, productive landscapes, local issues, rural and community planning. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| van der Hoeven, Frank | Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Dr.ir. Frank van der Hoeven is Director of Research of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and programme manager Open Science at TU Delft. He is responsible for the development of the research portfolio of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, the policy on open access publishing, and for the position of built environment in the Dutch creative industry. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Buck, Malachy | | Liverpool | United Kingdom | Dr Malachy Buck is a Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Development at Ulster University. Before his lectureship, Malachy was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Liverpool (2018-2024). During this time he completed his PhD in Spatial Planning, which examined the integration of environmental objectives through Plan-making and development processes of the British Planning system. His research interests focus on the interactions between individuals and the natural and built environment, exploring how different forms of Planning can mediate these interactions. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Doyle, Aoife | | Dublin | Ireland | Current AESOP YA Ambassador; Previous member of AESOP YA Coordination Team | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
| Mélice Dias, Ana | | Porto | Portugal | Completed her Master's in Architecture (ISCTE-IUL) in 2018. Currently is a PhD student in the Doctoral Program of Territorial Planning in FEUP, Porto. Worked in consulting in the area of Urban Planning, as well as a researcher in the Research projects BooST (in CITTA, FEUP) and SPLACH (in DINAMIA'CET-IUL, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon). Interested in the sustainability-driven transformations currently taking place in the urban fabric and in supporting urban planning practitioners through applied research. Research areas include urban morphology, the urban food system, and sustainable mobility. | ViewWebsite ProfileMap |
