Ass. Prof. Dr. Patrick A. Witte (1988) is Associate Professor in Spatial Planning. His research focuses on integrated spatial planning, transport infrastructure systems, and digital planning of cities. He has authored or co-authored over 60 international, peer-reviewed academic journal articles. Patrick has published an international handbook on spatial planning and is involved as editor or guest editor of various international journals.
Patrick is currently working on the following lines of research:
Patrick is also a visiting researcher to the KRITIS research group of TU Darmstadt (PhD project of Punt on critical infrastructure governance) and the School of Spatial Planning of TU Dortmund (PhD project of Dral on governance, legitimacy and participation). He is editorial board member of the international academic journal Urban Planning and of the Dutch/Flemish academic publisher InPlanning. He is academic advisor of the Kennisadviescommissie WLO2024 and the IkBenWaterproof collaboration between Utrecht University and Witteveen+Bos.
Patrick is the Master Director of the Human Geography and Planning teaching institute. He was also program director of the Master’s program in Spatial Planning until 2024, which was awarded the AESOP Certificate of Quality for Excellence in Education (2019). He coordinates and teaches courses in the Master’s program Spatial Planning (Advanced Research Methodology, Urban Governance in Spatial Planning, Planning Professionalization, Master Thesis) and the Bachelor’s program Human Geography and Planning (Spatial Planning: an exploration of the discipline, Planning Studio, Bachelor Thesis). He was a selected participant in the Educational Leadership Program of Utrecht University (2022) and is now participating as a member of the university-wide education committee of Institutions for Open Societies (IOS). In 2023, Patrick was nominated for the Geosciences Teacher of the Year award.
Patrick is also a member of the Excellence in Education Board of AESOP and a substitute representative of the Netherlands in AESOP's CoRep council.