Pieter Hooimeijer is emeritus professor of Human Geography and Demography at the Urban Futures Research Centre of Utrecht University. He has published many academic (refereed) papers and several professional publications on household demography, residential mobility, migration and urban development. His main research interest is the recursive relation between population change on the one hand and the dynamics of housing and labour markets on the other at a variety of spatial scales ranging from neighbourhoods to metropolitan areas.  Current research projects are based in the Netherlands and China.

He was chair of the Social Science Division of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research MaGW/NWO and former chair of the Social Science Council of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). His current services include research development at the executive board of KNAW.