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• Ludek Sýkora (Ludek Sykora) is a professor of social geography and regional development at Charles University in Prague. His research and teaching focus on urban change in post-socialist cities, the impacts of globalization on urban transformation, metropolitan processes such as suburbanization, neighborhood change including gentrification, segregation, intercultural dynamics in immigrant neighborhoods, and urban and housing policies. He has conducted applied research and consultancy for the European Commission, national ministries and agencies, local governments, the business sector, and NGOs.



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• Tomás Brabec (Tomas Brabec) is a social geographer and demographer specializing in population development in Prague and local-level population forecasting. His work also examines the city’s social structure and the processes shaping it. He is based at the Institute of Planning and Development of Prague, where he prepares studies and dashboards that inform the city’s strategic and spatial planning.



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Lukás Bruha (Lukas Bruha) is an assistant professor of applied geoinformatics and cartography at Charles University in Prague. His research and teaching focus on spatial databases, 3D GIS, spatial analysis, and visualization—particularly the role of Level-of-Detail in handling large spatial datasets such as digital surface models and 3D city models. He has worked on a range of projects with applications in both physical and human geography.



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• Richard Janecek (Richard Janecek) is a master’s student in Social Geography and Regional Development at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. His studies combine quantitative and qualitative methods with a focus on sustainability and climate change adaptation and mitigation. His bachelor’s thesis examined the spatial and social dimensions of decarbonizing the residential housing sector in the Czech Republic.



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• Matej Martinák (Matej Martinak) is a master’s student at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University in Prague. His academic focus lies in urban geography, particularly in areas such as socioeconomic diversity, electoral geography, and the challenges of contemporary urban growth in Europe. He primarily applies quantitative research methods. In his free time, he enjoys photography, especially capturing urban architecture and metropolitan life.

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• Robert Musil (project lead) is a geographer in the field of urban housing-market analysis.
  In his recent research he analyses ownership and finance structures as well as the social implications during the housing market boom.
  His work focuses on Vienna’s historic housing stock. 
• Sandra Guinand is an urban geographer and urban planner, whose work examines the socioeconomic transformations of urban landscapes with a specific focus on heritage processes & public-private partnerships.
  She will contribute to the project with her knowledge on heritage dimensions.
• Jiannis Kaucić holds a Phd position at the ISR, dealing with urban segregation dynamics on the microscale.
  His focus is on geodata management and geostatistical analyses and visualisation.
• Florian Brand (societal partner), architect, civil engineer, and CEO of HuB Architekten ZT GmbH, a Vienna-based architectural office with a focus on urban renewal, urban design, housing, building renovation, and participation.
  Since 2012 HuB Architekten are contractors of the City of Vienna for Urban Renewal (Gebietsbetreuung Stadterneuerung GB*west).

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• Orkun Kasap is an architect with further education in the field of urban management. His current research and teaching at ETH Zurich is located in the intersection of heritage preservation, repair and maintenance of the younger building stock, and the heritage of minorities. 

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• Saïd Belguidoum is a sociologist, senior lecturer and researcher at IREMAM (CNRS – Aix Marseille University). His work focuses on Mediterranean and North African cities, particularly urban dynamics and transnational movements. As head of the Cities and Sustainable Territories Department at Aix Marseille University’s Institute of Technology (IUT – AMU), he directs a number of projects relating to the city of Marseille and has set up partnerships with local institutional and associative players.
• Emmanuel Matteudi is a professor at the Regional Planning Institute of Aix-Marseille and director of the LIEU research laboratory. He has been working for many years on social innovations driven by civil society in several Mediterranean countries. His research focuses specifically on the adaptive capacities of populations, inhabitant participation and the inclusive dimension of the urban fabric, in a context where social and environmental justice are closely linked.
• Margot Bergerand is a postdoctoral researcher (CNRS/Iremam) with a doctorate in urban planning. Her thesis focused on the lower end of the private rental market in the centre of Marseille from a sociological perspective. Her research deals with housing policies, and more specifically private rental market dynamics, investment strategies, housing trajectories and social relations between tenants and landlords.
• Benoit Nicolas has been an architect at AGAM since 2002. In the Urban Projects Division, he works in the field of spatial planning and urban design. For the past 8 years, he has also been supporting and monitoring AGAM’s partnerships on issues relating to the relationship between the city and the port.

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• Richard Bellingham: Richard is Director for the Institute for Future Cities at University of Strathclyde. The Institute aims to improve the quality of human life through understanding cities in new ways, and creating innovative approaches for living and working in cities across the world. This is achieved through working with cities, businesses, communities and national governments to create and deliver sustainability, resilience, and digital transformation programmes that deliver meaningful impact for people, communities, government and businesses.
  Richard worked with commercial partners and cities from the Global North and Global South to deliver a successful international programme of events at COP26 focused on delivery of resilient sustainable cities. Over the last 5 years Richard has worked with UNIDO, cities globally, and business partners to deliver the UN Bridge for Cities programme.
  Richard led the development of the original Sustainable Glasgow strategy; and coordinated the EU STEP UP sustainable city demonstrator programme – working with cities across Europe. Richard was a major contributor to Glasgow’s £24 million Innovate UK Future Cities Demonstrator programme, helped develop Glasgow’s Resilience Strategy for the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities programme, and recently worked with University of Louisville to develop Louisville Kentucky’s Priority Climate Action Plan. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, and a member of the Institute’s Fellowship Board.



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• Professor Ken Gibb: Ken is professor of housing economics and Director of the ESRC UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, both at the University of Glasgow. A careerlong focus on housing research, Ken works on the economics of housing policy across many dimensions including social housing, private rental, systems thinking and policies to address the decarbonising of the housing stock.
  Recent research includes cost benefit analysis of an EnerPhit Victorian tenement retrofit, policy analysis of council tax reform, research on homelessness interventions and developmental work on national housing strategies. Ken was a member of the Scottish housing investment taskforce and the MHCLG advisory group on long term housing strategy. He is a board member of Clyde Valley housing association and a trustee of the Centre for Homelessness Impact. He is currently writing a book on housing tax reform for Policy Press.



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• Professor Tim Sharpe: Professor Sharp is Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde and has both practice and research expertise in low energy and sustainable architecture, construction, particularly ventilation, health, and indoor air quality in housing. He is an architect with expertise in building design and health. He was the PI for the HEMAC network (AH/N006607/1) and Influence of ventilation design on the prevalence of anti-microbial bacteria in homes (AH/R002088/1) and has previously led on a range of studies that have investigated problems of performance gaps and poor environmental performance in contemporary construction. Tim has led several Knowledge Transfer Partnerships looking at the energy and health issues arising in both refurbishment and new build projects. He brings leading expertise in architectural design and environmental architecture studies.



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• Professor Bob Giddings: Bob studied Architecture at Newcastle University in the Northeast of England. He completed a DPhil in Urban Restoration at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York in 1994. He has held a Personal Chair in Architecture and Urban Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne since 2007. Bob has also been Visiting Professor at Schools of Architecture in Belgrade, Skopje and Newcastle Australia. He was one of the founding partners of the acclaimed interdisciplinary Sustainable Cities Research Institute, and was Lead Examiner at the UK Architects Registration Board for many years. As an architect, Bob was engaged with several successful housing projects, continuing by researching housing and supervising PhDs on the topic. His other main research interest is buildings, spaces and places in city centres.



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• Chris Morgan: Bob studied Architecture at Newcastle University in the Northeast of England. He completed a DPhil in Urban Restoration at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York in 1994. He has held a Personal Chair in Architecture and Urban Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne since 2007. Bob has also been Visiting Professor at Schools of Architecture in Belgrade, Skopje and Newcastle Australia. He was one of the founding partners of the acclaimed interdisciplinary Sustainable Cities Research Institute, and was Lead Examiner at the UK Architects Registration Board for many years. As an architect, Bob was engaged with several successful housing projects, continuing by researching housing and supervising PhDs on the topic. His other main research interest is buildings, spaces and places in city centres.Chris is an architect and a Director at John Gilbert Architects with over 30 years’ experience in ecological design and sustainable development. He has maintained a range of experience from master planning and energy infrastructure, through to award-winning and innovative architecture, research and teaching. Previously a Chair of the Scottish Ecological Design, Chris is one of only three architects with advanced sustainable architecture accreditation from the RIAS in Scotland. He has certification in Passivhaus design, building biology and permaculture.