Smart Cities

Researchers

Onderzoekers vanuit de ESSB

prof. dr. Liesbet van Zoonen
Social Sciences and humanities
Prof. dr. Liesbet van Zoonen is academic director of the Centre for BOLD Cities. Furthermore, she is professor of Sociology and dean of the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Her research covers a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, but all concern the question how data and digitization in the city work for civic understanding and social participation.
prof. dr. Marjolijn Das
Urban Statistics
Marjolijn Das is endowed professor of Urban Statistics at the Centre for BOLD Cities. This special chair is established by CBS (Statistics Netherlands), where she works as a statistical researcher. In her research, Marjolijn Das focuses on the interaction between city residents and their social networks.
prof. dr. Claartje ter Hoeven
Organisational Dynamics in the Digital Society
Prof. dr. Claartje ter Hoeven is professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam in Organisational Dynamics in the Digital Society. The research focus of ter Hoeven lies on how digital technologies are able to help organise, manage and shape the way we work.
dr. Jiska Engelbert
Media and Communication
Dr. Jiska Engelbert is associate professor and examines the discourse of politics and the politics of discourse. She was coordinator of the Smart Cities theme in the VSNU Digital Society program, and now leads the smart city research in the Erasmus Initiative Vital Cities and Citizens. She is a widely appreciated public speaker and columnist voor Vers Beton.
Vivien Butot, MSc.
Urban and cultural geography
Vivien Butot is a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam with a background in urban and cultural geography. Butot has a broad interest for urban matters like citizen initiatives in housing, urban design, sense of place and neighborhood dynamics. In his PhD research for he is focusing on the connections between smart city developments and privacy concerns.

Onderzoekers van buiten de ESSB

prof. dr. Lex Burdorf
Public Health
Lex Burdorf is professor in Determinants of Public Health at the Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC. He is connected to the Centre for BOLD Cities in his capacity as advisor to the 'Reintegration in BOLD cities' team.
dr. ir. Haydee Sheombar
Technology and Operations Management
Dr. ir. Haydee Sheombar is lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam; RSM Rotterdam School of Management; Department of Technology and Operations Management.
dr. Peter Scholten
Social and Political Sciences
Dr. Peter Scholten is a governance and sustainability specialist with a background in Social and Political Sciences of the Environment at Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
dr. Jay Lee
Media and Communication
Ju-Sung (Jay) Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests lie at the nexus of social, communication, and semantic networks. He is heavily involved with accompanying methodologies such as statistics, network analysis, computer-aided text analysis, computational social science, and other digital methods.
dr. Daniel Trottier
Media and Communication
Dr. Daniel Trottier is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research considers the use of digital media for the purposes of scrutiny, denunciation and shaming.
dr. Jason Pridmore
Media and Communication
Jason Pridmore is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests are focused primarily on practices of digital identification, the use of new/social media and consumer data as surveillance practices, and digital (cyber) security issues.
dr. Merel Schuring
Public Health
Merel Schuring is postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus MC's department of Public Health. She is project lead for the Reintegration in BOLD cities project.
Anne van Eldik, MSc.
Media, Communication & Culture
Anne van Eldik is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University Research Center for Media, Communication & Culture. Her research focuses on urban media engagement by looking at how young people construct an urban identity from their creative media use.
Margot Kersing, MSc.
Health Policy Management
Margot Kersing is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Health Policy Management (ESHPM). The research is about Big Data in the social domain; a qualitative ethnographic research commissioned by the Centre for BOLD Cities.
Sabrina Huizenga, MSc.
Health Policy & Management
Sabrina Huizenga is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM). Her project revolves around the experimental city and unpacking big data and citizen engagement in urban health labs. In this project, Huizenga explores whether urban labs can be viewed as a radically different, more inclusive mode of governance or the continuation of the status quo in a slightly altered form.