Academic profile
I am a geographer and spatial planner, working alongside three research streams (1) European Spatial Policies, (2) trends in urban developments (housing policies, digitalisation, digital twins, climate change adaptation), and (3) financialization of infrastructure. I am currently a Professor of Urban and Regional Research at the Institute of Spatial Planning at TU Vienna and an Affiliated Professor and Senior Departmental Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Before joining TU Vienna, I was Assistant Professor of Planning and Housing at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Interim Professor of International Planning Studies at TU Dortmund University, at the Faculty of Spatial Planning. I came to Cambridge on a British Academy Newton International Fellowship. I was awarded my Doctor for my thesis ‘Macro-regional integration – new scales, spaces and governance for Europe’ from the Institute of Geography, Erlangen-Nuremberg University. I am regularly advising the European Commission and am involved in large scale international projects. I am also Co-editor of the book EU Cohesion Policy and European Spatial Governance. |
Teaching
I support the Department of Land Economy in Paper 10 (The Built environment) and PGR 02 (Urban and Housing Policies). |
Publications
(Selected Journal Publications 2020-2023)
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Current PhD students
Jihuan Li (University of Cambridge) Julia Dorner (TU Wien) Johanna Felbrich (University of Cologne /TU Wien) |
Recent PhD students
Yiru Jia |
Category/Classification
Spatial Planning, housing, digitalisation, geography, border studies, European Spatial Planning, economic geography, Belt and Road Initiative, Financialisation, infrastructure, urban studies, planning theory |