Dr. Daniela Perrotti, founder and director
Prof Landscape and Member Board of Directors Louvain research Institute of Landscape, Architecture, Built Environment
Research associates and postdoctoral researchers
(Funding: F.R.S.-FNRS ; Institute for Research and Innovation Innoviris/Brussels Capital Region)
Dr. Marlène Boura
Towards an animal-inclusive design in the Brussels Capital Region. A cartographic and design exploration into non-human agency
Dr. Yasmina Choueiri
Informal Resource Systems and Governance
Dr. Sareh Moosavi
How prepared are Belgian Landscape Architects to act on Climate Change Mitigation through Metabolic and Lifecycle Thinking ?
Dr. Anastasia Papangelou
The Agency-Information-Spacetime nexus: conceptual meta-framework and integrated model decision system for a unified approach to the study of the metabolism of urban social-ecological systems
Dr. Kai Whiting
A social metabolism framework for the integration of energy, material and ecosystem services
PhD researchers
(Funding: F.R.S.-FNRS and UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council EPSRC)
Ursula-Crisy Cardenas-Mamani
Urban Metabolism for advanced Nature-based Solutions: an integrated framework to support the development of a shared knowledge base and combined dynamic modelling approaches (UMaNS)
Daniel Otero Peña
Infrastructure, Topography and Landscape: Designing landscape infrastructure strategies through the spatialization of urban metabolism flows
Giulia Scialpi
Urban mining from food and soil waste: impact assessment and policy support for the Belgian construction industry
Christina Bristow
Co-supervision University of Reading, School of the Built Environment, UK.
A taxonomy of cities: Classifying urban metabolism typologies towards understanding infrastructural dynamics
Research assistants
(Funding: Flemish Region, Department Omgeving/Environment, programme Proeftuinen ontharding)
Andrea Aragone
Groen met Grijs/Green With Grey: Ecological benefits from the desealing of industrial plateforms in Flanders
Visiting postdoc researchers
Dr. Chiara Palermo – University of Strasbourg
Approches contemporaines de la création et de la réflexion artistiques Research Unit, France.
Landscape and temporalities
Dr. Pramit Verma – Nicolaus Copernicus University/Interacting - minds, societies, environment Research center, Poland
Empirical insights into urban ecosystem services and circular economy
Visiting PhD researchers
Ruichang Mao - University of Southern Denmark/SDU Life Cycle Engineering
Urban Metabolism: A material stock- and flow-based analysis on future resource demand and environmental impacts of Chinese cities.
(Funding: EU Horizon 2020 COST Action “Mining the European Anthroposphere” (MINEA) Short-Term Scientific Missions)
Mazia Chaker-Aissi - Algiers Polytechnic School of Architecture and Urbanism/Ville Urbanisme et Développement Durable Research Lab
Analyzing the performance of Urban Symbiosis strategies at the local level in Algiers: potential for optimizing energy demand and CO2 emission abatement
(Funding: Algeria Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research)
PhD Advisory Committees
Roberta Pistoni - Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles, France, and Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Application of urban metabolism theory in the planning and design of cities: New sustainable energy landscapes. Roberta Pistoni
Behzad Bamdad Mehrabani – UCLouvain/LAB
Evaluation of the resilience of a road network in the light of new technologies in the field of mobility
Augustin Hautecoeur – UCLouvain/LAB
The role of the food system in the re-territorialisation process: catalysing new approaches to governance and resource specialization