Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
 

Niki Frantzeskaki, PhD, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Niki Frantzeskaki is a Chair Professor in Regional and Metropolitan Governance and Planning at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Niki has published close to 100 peer-reviewed articles and in 2017 and 2018 released three books on urban sustainability transitions. She has also edited 15 special issues in top-ranked journals about sustainability and sustainability transitions. She is coordinating research on environmental governance, and urban sustainability transitions by leading and being involved in a portfolio of research projects with research institutes across Europe, Canada, Brazil and Australia. She is actively contributing as an author in CBO, GEO-5, GEO-6 and IPBES assessments.

Prof. Dr.-Ing Marc Wolfram, PhD, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development/Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Marc Wolfram is Director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) and full professor for spatial development at Dresden University of Technology. He has an interdisciplinary academic background and extensive experience as a consultant and senior investigator in Europe (2002-2012), doing collaborative research on diverse urban sustainability issues with stakeholders at all levels. He also worked as an associate professor in South Korea (2013-19), pioneering research on transformative urban change dynamics, and advising global city networks, UN bodies and funding agencies. He has published widely in leading journals, and is a board member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS).

Associate Editors
 

Xuemei Bai, PhD, Australian National University, Australia

Sarah Burch, PhD, Waterloo University, Canada
Dr. Sarah Burch holds a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada. She is currently a Lead Author of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007). She is an expert in transformative responses to climate change at the community scale, innovative strategies for making progress on sustainability, and the unique contributions that small businesses can make to this solving this complex challenge. She leads the international partnership-based research project TRANSFORM: Accelerating sustainability entrepreneurship experiments in local spaces, and is the Director of the Sustainability Policy Research on Urban Transformations (SPROUT) Lab.

Jonas Bylund, PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Jonas Bylund is part of the JPI Urban Europe Management Board since 2013. His main responsibility is science-policy communication and to develop urban research and innovation funding calls with affiliated funding agencies as well as other initiatives. Since 2013 he is also employed at IQS, the Swedish Centre for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment. He is trained in human geography and social anthropology, with a specific research focus on the knowledge practices in planning and environmental sciences. His PhD thesis Planning, Projects, Practice (2006) investigated a local investment programme concerning new environmental technologies in Stockholm urban development and was an attempt to translate actor-network theory into planning studies. He is an experienced lecturer in urban and regional planning, with a particular focus on epistemology and ontology in the social sciences. He is also a consultant with Urbanalys.

Dr. Arch. Alejandro de Castro Mazarro, PhD, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany

Faith Chan, PhD, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Dr Faith, Ka Shun Chan specialized in sustainable flood risk management, climate adaptations and urban resilience in Asian coastal megacities. He is currently funded by the Chinese National Research Council (NSFC) as a principal investigator on microplastics and its impacts on urban rivers, he is also involved in two international research projects as a researcher in the Blue-Green Cities Consortium (funded by ESPRC and British Academy from the UK research council) and co-investigating in the flood risk and commercial properties (funded by RICS) project. He is also a principal investigator on three municipal-funded projects to investigate the surface water quality, typhoon-enhanced flood risk, and the development of a “Sponge City” study in Ningbo, the total funding he awarded has been over 2 million RMB. Currently, he is working with the research consortium in the Greater Bay Area with Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong provincial scholars and governmental officials on the mitigation of typhoon-enhanced flood risk and improving climate resilience funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) from 2019-2023. Faith is the editing Panel Committee lead author in the “4^th National Climate Change Assessment Report of the People’s Republic of China – the chapter of Hong Kong, Macao and Pearl River Delta Region”, contributing towards the urban floods and typhoon hazards section. He has published more than 70 publications in top-tier international peer-reviewed journals related to his research areas such as Nature, Nature Review of Earth and Environment, Nature Ecology and Evolution, One Earth, Environmental Science and Policy, Journal of Hydrology and Land Use Policy, etc., book chapters and magazines.

Lars Coenen, PhD, The Mohn Center for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway/ Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Coenen is well-known internationally for his theoretical and empirical work on regional and urban innovation and, in particular, his pioneering research on the geography of environmental innovation and sustainability transitions. He has authored over 70 scientific papers published in leading international journals. Previously, Lars was a full professor at CIRCLE, the Centre for Innovation Research at Lund University. From 2017-2020 he has been the inaugural ‘City of Melbourne Chair of Resilient Cities’, at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Marcus Collier, PhD, Trinity College, Ireland
Marcus has carried out research in diverse areas of land use and land-use change, resilience thinking and societal transitioning, collaborative management and planning, urban and rural governance, biodiversity impact, as well as novel landscapes and landscape elements. In recent years his research has focused on methods and innovations in building urban resilience and fostering sustainability. As an environmental consultant, prior to entering academia, he worked with communities and governmental agencies to co-devise and implement environmental projects through adaptive collaborative processes. He has much experience in the co-creation and co-design of environmental projects to shape empirical research methodologies for use in testing new mechanisms for collecting data. Marcus coordinates Connecting Nature, a Horizon 2020 project which has thirty-one partners in sixteen European countries, as well as many non-EU cities. His work aims to deploy nature-based solutions to increase biodiversity and foster climate resilience across cities. He coordinated the FP7 TURAS project which developed novel strategies of innovative design; collaboration; and integrated and resilient policy prescriptions, which have enabled urban planners and policy makers to tackle the adaption of urban landscape to climate challenges. Marcus is an expert panel member for the European Research Council.
Web page: https://www.tcd.ie/Botany/people/colliema/

Liang Dong, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Dong Liang is an assistant professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA), and School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests include urban sustainability and urban metabolism, circular economy, corporate environmental-social-governance (ESG), and, sustainable urban planning. He leads and engages urban sustainability projects in Hong Kong SAR, Mainland China, The Netherlands and Japan. He served as international advisor for the US Energy Foundation, UN-ESCAP, and the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE). He is the committee member of the "Sustainable Urban Systems" and "Industrial Symbiosis" section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. He has been awarded as the Top 2% highly-cited Scientist by Stanford University, and the Best Scientist in Environmental Sciences by Research.com.

Adina Dumitru, PhD, University of A Coruña, Spain

Megan Farrelly, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Megan Farrelly is an Associate Professor and current Discipline Convenor of Human Geography in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Megan's broad body of social science research has predominantly examined the processes and pathways for delivering practical and socio-institutional change to achieve sustainable urban transformations. Her work has largely focused on urban water governance and policy, having contributed significantly to the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (2010-2016). She also examines the role of experimentation and innovation in shaping more sustainable built environments. Megan has over 50 publications, many of which are published in leading journals. Her work is highly cited and she has a keen interest in translating scholarly insights into practical materials within decision-making contexts.

Michail Fragkias, PhD, Boise State University, United States of America

Prof. Dr. Nadja Kabisch, PhD, Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Nadja Kabisch is a Professor for Digital Landscape Ecology at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. From 2019-2020 she was a Guest Professor for Urban Ecosystem Science at the Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Ecology. From 2017-2022, Nadja was also leading the research group GreenEquityHEALTH at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lab Urban Ecosystems, Health and Environmental Justice. In 2017 Nadja released an edited book with Springer on „Nature-based solutions to climate change in urban areas - Linkages of science, policy and practice“. Nadja is working on the interactions between the challenges from urbanisation and climate change, the provision of urban ecosystem services and their associations to health and well-being of city residents in the context of sustainable and resilient urban and environmental planning.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Lang, PhD, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Daniel J. Lang is Professor in Real-World Lab Design at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University. He was Dean of this faculty between 2012 and 2016. Since 2016 he is the President’s Special Advisor for Sustainability at Leuphana. Furthermore he is adjunct faculty member at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University and Honorary Professor at the Universiti Sains Malaysia. The main focus of Daniel’s work revolves around the further development of the theoretical, methodological as well as process-related foundations of Sustainability Science. In particular his professorship focuses on cooperation and mutual learning processes between different scientific disciplines as well as science and society with the aim to develop robust solution options for urgent sustainability problems of the 21st century.

Prof. Dr. Derk Loorbach, PhD, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Daphne Mah Ngar-yin, PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Kes McCormick, PhD, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Kes McCormick is a Professor of Business Development and Sustainable Innovation at the Department of People and Society at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He also holds a position at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. With a background in political science and environmental science, and 20 years of academic and management experience, he engages in a combination of research, education and collaboration activities on sustainability, business, innovation and governance. He is also deeply engaged in online education, capacity building and lifelong learning through Massive Open Online Courses. He coordinates the City Futures Academy - an online learning community on sustainable cities with over 100,000 participants.
He has extensive experience with research, innovation, project and stakeholder management based on diverse leadership roles. He has worked in 30 projects and collaborated with over 200 organisations, including local governments, public agencies, business, NGOs and SMEs. He collaborates continuously with a range of local and international organisations. He is also the most downloaded author at Lund University. Since 2004, he has produced over 115 publications (with more than 250,000 downloads and 5000 citations) in a diversity of formats for a range of target audiences. Finally, he is an experienced teacher and course coordinator, and he is also a skilled moderator, engaging presenter and event organiser.

Timon McPhearson, PhD, Urban Systems Lab, The New School, United States of America
Dr. Timon McPhearson is Professor of Urban Ecology and Director of the Urban Systems Lab at The New School. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, and Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. He is a Lead Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment report, a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES), and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Commission on BiodiverCities. He studies the ecology in, of, and for cities to advance resilience, sustainability, and justice. McPhearson has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, books chapters, books, and popular press articles. 

Sara Meerow, PhD, Arizona State University, United States of America
Sara Meerow is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University where she leads the Planning for Urban Resilience Lab. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of urban planning and geography to tackle the challenge of making cities more resilient in the face of climate change and other hazards, while at the same time more sustainable and just. Her research focuses on conceptualizations of urban resilience, climate change adaptation, and green infrastructure planning. Recent projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Energy focus on developing and applying new methodologies to evaluate how cities plan for resilience to extreme heat and flooding.

Magnus Moglia, PhD, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Magnus Moglia is an Associate Professor and Theme Leader for Urban Regeneration, at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Urban Transitions. His primary research focuses on solutions and actionable knowledge for sustainability in cities and regions, especially in relation to actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation. In recent years, his research has focused on topics such as Circular Economy, the adoption and socio-technical transition of green technology in cities and regions, Nature-Based Solutions, the implications of telework/working from home practices for urban planning and sustainability, as well as future studies and systems analysis of how to achieve more resilient cities. Methodologically, with a background in Physics and Mathematics, and a PhD in Environmental Management, Magnus is a transdisciplinary systems scientist that focuses on the integration of qualitative and quantitative data into planning systems, policy analysis, and modelling activities, as well as for collaborative governance. Prior to his current position, Magnus was based at the CSIRO for 19 years, the Australian Government’s National Science Agency, as a Principal Research Scientist and Research Team Leader, where his primary research focused on climate adaptation and resilience in cities, and spending more than a decade on researching the innovation and socio-technical transitions relating to the sustainability transitions required in Australia’s urban water systems. Dr Moglia has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, including in top-ranking journals such as Global Environmental Change, Water Research, Journal of Hydrology, Sustainable Cities and Society, Transportation Research Part D, and Journal of Cleaner Production.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Monstadt, PhD, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Harini Nagendra, PhD, Azim Premji University, India
Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India, where she anchors a programme of research on climate change and urban sustainability. Over the past 20 years, she has been at the leading edge of research examining urban sustainability in India, one of the world’s fastest urbanizing countries. For her interdisciplinary work that combines research and practice, she has received a number of awards including the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences, the 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award, and the 2017 Clarivate Web of Science award. She has published widely in leading journals, and also written two best-selling non-fiction books on Indian cities - “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future” (Oxford University Press, 2016) and “Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities” (Penguin, 2019). She is a well-known public speaker, writer and columnist in India. Professor Nagendra engages with international science and policy through her current and past participation on the Future Earth Steering Committees of Global Land Project and Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society.

Eamon O'Hara, MSc, Ecolise, France
Eamon O’Hara is the initiator, co-founder and current Executive Director of ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked at the European LEADER Observatory and, from 2007-2010, led the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme. Between 2010-2013 Eamon coordinated a research project on community-led transitions in European, leading to the publication, Europe In Transition: local communities leading the way to a low carbon future. In 2014, he worked with 25 founding members to establish ECOLISE. Eamon holds a Bachelor's degree in environmental science, a masters degree in climate change and sustainable development and post-graduate qualifications in business administration, project management and rural development. He now lives in France.

Laura Pereira, DPhil, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ania Rok, MA, ICLEI, Germany

Richard Stedman, PhD, Cornell University, United States of America

Dr. ir Jonas Torrens, PhD, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Dr Jonas Torrens works at Utrecht University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and as an associate fellow at the Urban Futures Studio. He is also a visiting fellow at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. Jonas' key interest is in how to enable sustainability transitions and transformations in just and democratic ways. He has focused on two overlapping domains: urban infrastructural change and (transformative) innovation policy.
As part of the 'Transforming infrastructures for sustainable cities' hub, his current research examines the strategies used for 'governing transformations through experimentation', drawing from transdisciplinary cases in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Toronto.
His PhD research (SPRU, 2019) considered how and why particular cities become 'good places' to experiment with sustainability, examining the history of sustainability initiatives in Bristol and Medellín.
Jonas is deeply involved in building collaborative networks to facilitate more engaged transdisciplinary research. He helped co-found the Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST). As a member of the steering group of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network, he co-founded the thematic group on Urban Transitions and Transformations.
Jonas is a cosmopolitan Brazilian, who developed his love for cities while living and working in Curitiba, Lyon, Paris, Madrid, Nantes, Stockholm, Brighton, and now Utrecht.

Julia Wittmayer, PhD, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Julia Wittmayer is a sustainability transitions scholar with a background in social and cultural anthropology. She works as Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) and as senior researcher at DRIFT, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Starting from the assumption that processes of societal change are continuous and ongoing processes of searching and learning from and with another, one of her foci is on creating spaces for collaboration, learning and exchange between policy, science and society. Throughout the last decade, Julia has developed and implemented many collaborative research formats that are generative of critical knowledge and action regarding societal challenges in urban areas and on local scale or within the context of energy system change. Using such research formats, amongst others, she investigates the changing roles and relations of actors (i.e. social innovation) and their meaning-making in sustainability transitions. Next to being involved in or leading a variety of research projects, Julia provides policy advice to local and national government bodies across Europe.

Jun Yang, PhD, Northeastern University, China
Jun Yang is a Professor in Urban Climate and Human Settlements at Northeastern University (Shenyang China). My research expertise involves in interdisciplinary study in the areas of geospatial technologies, urban remote sensing, urban space growth simulation, urban climate zone and human settlements. As PI or Co-PI, I have been involved in 44 research projects receiving a total of 12 million in RMB from EGOV.CN (e.g. NFC, MOST and MOE) since 2002. I have authored and co-authored more than 210 papers and book chapters, and published more than 90 English papers and more than 120 Chinese papers in academic journals.

Gina Ziervogel, DPhil, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Gina Ziervogel is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation and development across scales from the household to municipal level with a focus on water, urban governance and resilience issues.  Methodologically she is interested in engaged scholarship and transdisciplinary projects that bring together civil society, government and academics to address problems collaboratively. She was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6^th Assessment report, Cities, settlements and key infrastructure chapter and has authored numerous papers, book chapters and popular articles. In 2020 Gina was awarded the UCT Social responsiveness award. 

Advisory Board
 

Vanesa Castán Broto, Ir, MSc, EngD, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom