Project Coordinator
Marc Dijk (PhD) is an assistant professor of Innovation and Sustainable Development. He was the principal researcher and coordinator of SmarterLabs (www.smarterlabs.eu). His research expertise includes socio-technical transformations, innovation policy (mixes) and sustainable mobility, including the role of urban living labs. He has published widely on these topics, with more than 1200 citations in Google Scholar.
Project Leaders
Anique Hommels (PhD) holds a special chair in Sociohistorical Technology Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She participated in EU, Eurocores and NWO projects on the development and governance of (critical) infrastructure in Europe. Her research focuses on processes of urban socio-technical change, obduracy and urban resilience.
Andrew Karvonen (PhD) is a professor of urban design and planning in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Lund University and director of LU's Urban Arena. Andrew is also the principal researcher and coordinator of TRANS-PED: Transforming Cities through Positive Energy Districts (trans-ped. eu), a two-year European research project that involves over 30 academics and practitioners in Sweden, Belgium, and Austria. His research expertise focuses on the socio-technical transformation of cities with a specific focus on sustainable infrastructure transformations, living laboratories and urban experimentation, and smart cities and digitalization.
Martin Emanuel (PhD) is a historian of science and technology and a researcher in the Department of Planning and Environment. His expertise is in urban and mobility history and social science mobility studies with a particular focus on sustainable mobility (pedestrianism, cycling) including policy-making, innovation, and grassroots initiatives. He is PI of the Formas-funded project Techno-Politics of Walking (2020–23) and was previously part of interdisciplinary cycling-related R&I programs (CyCity, Pilotplats Cykel).
Daniel Normark is an Associate Professor in Sociology specializing in Science and technology studies and the director of Uppsala STS. Previously affiliated with the Medical History and Heritage Unit, Karolinska Institutet; Centre for Consumer Science (CFK) within the University of Gothenburg; the Mobility Studio at the Interactive Institute and as a research assistant at the Viktoria Institute in the Mobile Informatics Program. His research focuses on sites of negotiation from the interactions within the laboratory to the mundane features of mobility. His research includes studies on the organisation of medical research and education, academic leadership, the development of flexible laboratories, the history of the Swedish biomedical complex, academic infrastructures, infrastructures of mobility, cycling practices, consumer logistics, public transport organisation, management of waste, the implementation of self-service, and 20th-century urban mobility.
Joanna Bach Głowińska (PhD Eng. Arch) is the Architect by education (Gdansk University of Technology 1989-1994, M.Sc. Arch 1994) and practice (1994-2011), the Town Planner by practice (1999-2017, Ministerial Entitlements 1655/2002) and the researcher (PhD 2012, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art 2013-2015, also teaching at Gdansk University of Technology since 2014). She is an Assistant Professor at Gdansk University of Technology and the Head of the Urban Initiative Laboratory when she was the Principal Investigator of SUGI FWE Nexus CRUNCH Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices.
Project Investigators
Jacek Lubinski (PhD DSc. Eng.) A scientist at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Gdansk University of Technology since 1994 and a member of the Polish Tribological Association. Maintaining continual collaboration with industrial partners; mainly of engineering origin. Participated in tasks dealing with municipal heating, heat generation, and renewable energy sources.
Denver Vale Nixon (PhD) is a researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute at Maastricht University. His broader research interest is in the relationship between embodied knowledge and just and sustainable transitions. He has focused substantively on community-led walking and cycling infrastructure innovations for disadvantaged communities in London and São Paulo; how the techno-practices of walking, cycling, and driving mediate commuters' understandings of their social and physical environments; agricultural land reserve changes; and Daoist environmental praxiologies. His preceding posts were in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford, and as an independent consultant for government.
Nima Karimzadeh, landscape architect LAR/MSA, 2018 M.Sc. in Landscape Architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Nima has 4 years of working experience in landscape design; from early stages and programs to construction. He has particular experience in temporary landscape architecture, working all of his years in "Levande Stockholm", the program for summer and winter places. Besides working he has also continued his studies within the field of gender studies and architecture, art and performance art and thus developed knowledge about social aspects and users of spaces. Most recently he finished studies in stormwater treatment, applying it to landscape architecture.
Project Assistants
Kacper Lewandowski
Revsen Ozdemir