Former Research Platform Members

Yuri Kazepov

Yuri Kazepov is Professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the Department of Sociology

Ayse Caglar

Ayse Çaglar is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Alexa Färber

Alexa Färber is Professor of European Ethnology at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies

Thilo Hofmann

Thilo Hofmann is Professor of Environmental Geosciences at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science

Kerstin Krellenberg

Kerstin Krellenberg is Professor of Urban Studies at the Department of Geography and Regional Research

Torsten Möller

Torsten Möller is Professor for Visualization and Data analysis at the Faculty of Computer Science

Byeongsun Ahn

Byeongsun Ahn is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology

Tatjana Boczy

Tatjana Boczy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology

Julia Wesely

Julia Wesely is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Regional Research

Ruggero Cefalo

Ruggero Cefalo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Florence, Italy

Dorota Celinska-Janowicz

Dorota Celinska-Janowicz is a research coordinator in BRISPO at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Cansu Civelek

Cansu Civelek is an urban anthropologist and researcher at the Global-Tübingen Urbanities Research Network (G-TURN) at the University of Tübingen, Germany

Ana Ćuković

Ana Ćuković is a Council of Michigan Foundations Philanthropy Fellow at the Hudson-Webber Foundation in Detroit, USA

Stefanie Döringer

Stefanie Döringer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Regional Research

Cornelia Dlabaja

Cornelia Dlabaja is an Endowed Professor for Sustainable Urban Tourism at FHWien and Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the University of Vienna

Felix Gallinger

Felix Gallinger is a doctoral student at the Department of European Ethnology (University of Vienna), and researcher at the University of Bamberg, Germany

Joshua Grigsby

Joshua Grigsby is a lecturer at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, and researcher at the NGO "Smarter Than Car"

Sandra Guinand

Sandra Guinand is an urban planner, geographer, and postdoc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Nana Iashvili

Nana Iashvili is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna

Jiannis Kaucic

Jiannis Kaucic is a predoctoral researcher at Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Urban and Regional Research

Katrin Kremmel

Katrin Kremmel is Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and Associated Researcher at University of St. Gallen

Nele Kress

Nele Kress is a project manager in the climate department of the City of Frankfurt and was a research assistant at the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna

Petr Kodenko Kubala

Petr Kodenko Kubala is a postdoctoral researcher a t the Czech Academy of Sciences and was a visiting scholar at the Department of European Ethnology of the University of Vienna 

Johanna Lilius

Johanna Lilius is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Architecture at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland 

Elisabetta Mocca

Elisabetta Mocca is an urban researcher at the University of Salamanca, Spain

Ádám Németh

Ádám Németh is a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Urban Futures Platform.

Pamela Pasian

Pamela Pasian is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Venice, Italy.

Carmen Pérez del Pulgar Frowein

Carmen Pérez del Pulgar Frowein is a social environmental scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ in Leipzig

Catherine Raya Polishchuk

Raya Polishchuk is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna and Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Linz, Austria.

Martina Schorn

Martina Schorn is an urban researcher at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research in Austria and lecturer at the University of Vienna.

Andrea Schickowitz

Andrea Schickowitz is a lecturer and resarcher at FH Wiener Neustadt at the Institute of Market Research and Methodology 

Paul Schreiber

Paul Schreiber is researcher at the Department of Sociology at the Technical University Dortmund

Pouya Sepehr

Pouya Sepehr is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Arjin Taş

Arjin Taş is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna

Thomas Thaler

Thomas Thaler is Associate Professor at the Institute of Landscape Planning at BOKU University, Vienna.

Ayşe Seda Yüksel-Pecen

Ayşe Seda Yüksel-Pecen is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna

Josefa Stiegler

Josefa Stiegler is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences 

Emelia Warzweska

Emelia Warzweska is a project researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna 

Pierre Wenzel

Pierre Wenzel is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Antropology of the University of Vienna

Brigitte Zamzow

Brigitte Zamzow is an urban ethnographer and writer 

Céline Janssen

Céline Janssen is an urban researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands

Laura Lotteraner

Laura Lotteraner is an environmental data scientist. 

Hannah Sommer

Jana Brandl

Jana Brandl is a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna and Siegmund Freud University.

Václav Walach

Václav Walach is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work at the University of Ostrava, Czechia.

Václav was a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Futures Platform between September 2025 and February 2026.

Clelia Zardini

Clelia Zardini is a PhD candidate at the University of Milan, Italy.

Clelia was a visiting PhD student at the Urban Futures Platform between February 2025 and May 2025.

Job Zomerplaag

Job Zomerplaag is a PhD Candidate at Maastricht University and United Nations University – MERIT in the Netherlands.

Job was a visiting PhD student at the Urban Futures Platform between April 2025 and June 2025.

Melike Peterson

Melike Peterson is a postdoctoral researcher in urban geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Melike was a visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Urban Futures Platform in June 2024.

Paolo Graziano

Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, Italy

Paolo was a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology between April 2024 and May 2024.

Ishita Dey

Ishita Dey is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Ishita was a visiting professor at the Urban Futures Platform between September 2023 and October 2023.

Lucía Cobos

Lucía Cobos is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Lucía was a visiting PhD Student at the Urban Futures Platform between September 2023 and November 2023.

Kristal Martina Crupi

Kristal Martina Crupi is a PhD student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania, Italy.

Kristal was a visiting PhD student at the Urban Futures Platform between October 2024 and February 2025.

Urban Nothdurfter

Urban Nothdurfter is tenured associate Professor in Social Work and Social Policy at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

Urban was a visiting professor at the Urban Futures Platform between April 2023 and June 2023.

Eline de Jong

Eline de Jong is a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp.

Eline was a visiting PhD Student at the Urban Futures Platform between March 2023 and July 2023.

Céline Janssen

Céline Janssen is a postdoctoral urban researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Céline was a visiting PhD student at the Urban Futures Platform in April 2022.

Sarah Klosterkamp

Sarah Klosterkamp is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Human Geography at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Sarah was a visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Urban Futures Platform between December 2022 and February 2023.

Maria Luisa Zucchini-Solimei

Maria Luisa Zucchini-Solimei is a PhD candidate at the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Vienna (Cotutelle de thèse model).

Maria Luisa was a visiting PhD student between October 2025 and October 2026.

Agnieszka Chmura

Agnieszka Chmura is PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Agnieszka was a visiting PhD student between March 2026 and June 2026.

Carmela Chiapperini

Carmela Chiapperini is a PhD candidate at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Bari, Italy. 

Carmela was a visiting PhD student between February 2026 and August 2026. 

Andrea Machí

Andrea Machí is a PhD candidate at the University of Palermo, Italy.

Andrea was a visiting PhD student between April 2026 and October 2026. 

Melissa Artuso

Melissa is pursuing a Sociology Master’s degree in "Programming and management of the political and the social services" at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

Melissa was visiting the Urban Futures Platform on an ERASMUS+ internship between March 2026 and August 2026.

Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka

Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka is a Professor of Public Governance and Administation at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Aldona was a visiting professor at the Urban Futures Platform between October 2022 and December 2022.