Prof. dr. Jochen Monstadt

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 6.46
3584 CB Utrecht

Prof. dr. Jochen Monstadt

Professor
Spatial Planning
+31 30 253 3538
j.monstadt@uu.nl

Jochen Monstadt is professor of Governance of Urban Dynamics and Transitions and holds the Chair of Spatial Planning at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. Since the beginning of his postgraduate academic career, his research and teaching interests have revolved around the contingent and place-based transformation patterns of cities and how these are mediated by technical infrastructures (energy, water, wastewater, solid waste, transportation, and ICTs). His specific interest is how the socio-technical design and governance of those critical systems shape the sustainability of cities in the global North and South. Jochen has considerable international experience and has worked for research institutes and universities in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and the USA. Before he came to Utrecht in November 2016, he was a full professor of Spatial and Infrastructure Planning and the director of the Graduate School of Urban Studies at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (2009-2016). Jochen has a proven track record in conducting collaborative research and in leading large interdisciplinary research initiatives and has been the PI or co-investigator of research projects supported by various funding organizations, e.g., the Dutch Research Council, the German Research Foundation, the European Commission, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. At Utrecht University, he was leading the university-wide research hub on “Transforming Infrastructures for Sustainable Cities” (2017-2022), whose ambition was to explore pathways to urban sustainability through the lens of technical infrastructures. Between 2020 and 2023, he was visiting professor at the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, within the program “Future—Inventing the Cities of Tomorrow” (0.2 FTE). On-going projects involve research on the governance of critical infrastructures (co-investigator of PhD program at the TU Darmstadt, until 2019: co-director), and the governance of urban and infrastructural transitions in East and South Africa (PI of two NWO consortia with African partners).

Chair
Chair of Spatial Planning
Inaugural lecture date
20.04.2018