I am a geographer and urban planner and obtained my PhD at Ghent University (2017), with a dissertation on the relation between environmental health and urban planning. Afterwards I went to the UK, where I first worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2017-2019) on the ERC Project “Toxic Expertise: Environmental Justice and the Global Petrochemical Industry”. In 2019 I was awarded a three-year Leverhulme Fellowship in which I looked at the social justice of urban air pollution management. In 2022 I joined the Urban Studies section of the Urbanism Department at the TU Delft, on a tenure track Assistant Professor position.
My research has always focused on environment-society interactions, and I am particularly interested in just sustainabilities and just transitions. I think it is a key question how to develop and implement policies and plans that improve our local environment and reduce our carbon footprint, without unfairly distributing the costs of those policies across the population and without excluding vulnerable populations from decision processes. I want to further develop my research on this challenge and I am very interested in setting up collaborations.