Stan Geertman is Full Professor of Planning Support Science at Utrecht University. He has published widely in both national and international journals and has published a range of (editorial) books. He is member of editorial boards of several international peer-reviewed journals, inter alia Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS). He has been member of several international conference organizations (EGIS; JECC; AGILE; DDSS) and was for the past 10 years Chair of the international Board of Directors of CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management).

His current research interests:

• Planning and Decision Support Systems (PSS / DSS) in planning practice
• Smart City and Smart Governance
• Socio-spatial analysis for sustainable urbanization, notably in Chinese and Western contexts
• Planning theory and its implications for practice.