Jochen Monstadt is a visiting professor at LATTS for three years as part of the UGE program "Future-Inventing the Cities of Tomorrow." His stay at LATTS will allow him to collaborate on and further develop his initial research on urban temporalities of infrastructure.
Professor of Urban Transition Governance, Jochen Monstadt is in charge of the spatial planning section in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. Since the beginning of his academic career, his research and teaching interests have revolved around the contingent and local transformation of cities and how urban change is mediated by technical infrastructure (energy and water supply, wastewater and solid waste management, transportation, and ICT). He is particularly interested in how the socio-technical design (and governance) of these vital systems shapes the sustainability and resilience of cities in the North and South. At Utrecht University, he has been leading the university research cluster on "Infrastructure Transformation for Sustainable Cities" since 2017. Other ongoing projects involve research on the governance of critical infrastructure (doctoral program at TU Darmstadt), urban and infrastructural transitions in East and Southern Africa (principal investigator of two consortia with African partners), and the decarbonization of urban heating systems in European cities.