On-going
Dipura, Romeo: Toward urban water resilience in Cape Town: Droughts, floods and adaptive capacity. Joint doctorate Utrecht University/TU Darmstadt (supervisor TU Darmstadt: Sybille Frank; co-promotor: Shaun Smith).
Eledi Kuusaana, Joyce A.: The making of urban resilience. Critical energy infrastructure in Accra and Dar es Salaam. Joint doctorate Utrecht University/TU Darmstadt (co-promotor: Shaun Smith; supervisor TU Darmstadt: Annette Rudolph-Cleff).
He, Junyao: Using social media for shaping power relations: the role of civil society and journalism in collaborative planning in China. Utrecht University (second supervisor: Pieter Hooimeijer, co-promotor: Yanliu Lin).
Koepke, Mathias: Urban energy governance and sustainability transitions in Dar es Salaam and Maputo. Utrecht University (co-promotors: Francesca Pilo' and Kei Otsuki).
Li, Zhen: Collaborative planning in preserving and regenerating Chinese urban villages: stakeholder roles and power relations. Utrecht University (second supervisor: Pieter Hooimeijer, co-promotor: Yanliu Lin).
Punt, Eline: Seaports as nested infrastructure systems. Governing socio-technical risks at the Port of Rotterdam. Joint doctorate Utrecht University/TU Darmstadt (supervisor TU Darmstadt: Sybille Frank; co-promotor: Patrick Witte).
Zhou, Xiaomeng: Collaborative planning in China: authoritarian institutions, new media, power relations, and public spheres. Utrecht University (second supervisor: Pieter Hooimeijer, co-promotor: Yanliu Lin).
Completed (first supervisor)
Harvey, Nicola (2025): Coordinating the water, energy and food nexus through law: Legal mechanisms enabling a response to interdependencies to enhance resource security. Utrecht University (together with Marleen van Rijswick and Anoeska Buijze; approved for defence in May 2025).
Jambadu, Lazarus (2024): Maintaining and repairing Accra’s and Dar es Salaam’s water infrastructures: sociotechnical arrangements, labor relations, and resilience. Utrecht University/TU Darmstadt (Eburon, 2024).
Protschky, Andrea (2024): Improvising Infrastructure. Infrastructure practices and social exclusions of unhoused persons in Berlin. Joint doctorate Utrecht University/TU Darmstadt.
Meilinger, Valentin (2023): Sewers, Ponds, and Gardens: Technology and the Politics of Circular Water Flow in Los Angeles. Utrecht University (InPlanning, 2023).
Wolff, Annika (2021): Sozio-technischer Wandel durch Europäisierung? Die Abfallvermeidungspolitik der Städte München und Köln im Vergleich. TU Darmstadt (Nomos, 2022).
Guma, Prince Karakire (2020): Rethinking Smart Urbanism: City-Making and the Spread of Digital Infrastructures in Nairobi. Utrecht University (Eburon, 2020).
Macdonald, Sara (2020): Governing greenbelts in Southern Ontario and the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region: an institutional perspective. Utrecht University (Gildeprint, 2020).
Huck, Andreas (2020): Enhancing Urban and Infrastructure Resilience: An Institutional Perspective. Utrecht University/TU Darmstadt, (InPlanning, 2020, open access).
Petkov, Dejan (2018): Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe—A Socio-technical Analysis. TU Darmstadt (Springer, 2020).
Tuçaltan, Gül (2017): Metabolic Urbanization of Waste in Ankara: A Governance Perspective. Utrecht University (Eburon, 2018).
Akohou Gbacada, Sagbo R. (2017): Die städtische Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung Cotonous: Probleme, Perspektiven und Handlungsansätze. TU Darmstadt.
Scheiner, Stefan (2016): Interessen der Bundesländer in der deutschen Klimapolitik: Föderale Konfliktverarbeitung in drei Handlungsfeldern. TU Darmstadt (Schriften zum Föderalismus, Band 5, Nomos Verlag, 2017).
Schubert, Susanne (2015): Die Rolle räumlicher Planung zur Förderung klimaschonender Wärme- und Kälteversorgung in Deutschland und der Schweiz. TU Darmstadt (Verlag Dorothea Rohn, 2015).
Wilts, Henning (2014): Nachhaltige Innovationsprozesse in der Abfallwirtschaftspolitik – eine vergleichende Analyse zum Transition Management in deutschen Metropolregionen. TU Darmstadt (Kovaç Verlag, 2016).
Mettke, Christian (2014): Die Topologie des ÖPNV im suburbanen Raum – Toronto und Frankfurt am Main im Vergleich. TU Darmstadt.
Schmidt, Martin (2013): Regional Governance und Infrastruktur – Regionale Kooperationen in der Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung am Beispiel der Stadtregionen Frankfurt (Main), Berlin und Ruhr. TU Darmstadt (Verlag Dorothea Rohn, 2013).
Schramm, Sophie (2013): Stadt im Fluss: Die Abwasserentsorgung Hanois im Lichte sozialer und räumlicher Transformationen. TU Darmstadt (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014).