Meet the Team

  • Erandi Barroso Olmedo

    Erandi Barroso Olmedo

    Erandi holds a PhD in Urban Geography from The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), an MSc. in Urbanism and Architecture from the same university and a BA in Architecture (ITESM). She is a member of Mexico’s Researches National System (SNI) and a member of the research group MoviGen (Mobility and Gender). She teaches in the postgraduate and undergraduate architecture programs at UNAM. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich.

    Expertise
    • Gendered mobilities and access to the city
    • Mobility and care practices
    • Public housing policies in the configuration of Latin-American peripheries.
    • Global Climate Finance

  • Fritz-Julius Grafe

    Fritz-Julius Grafe

    Fritz-Julius Grafe is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Unit for Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Zurich. He holds a PhD in Geography from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is a co-convener of the UrbanCliFi Network. He has worked extensively on the financialization of Water Infrastructure in both British and Indian contexts and has explored related questions for the European Commission regarding the precautionary principle for sustainable urban development under climate change. His current work focusses on the urbanization of climate finance.

    Expertise
    • Urbanization of Climate Finance
    • Financialization of Infrastructure
    • Sustainable Urban Development

  • Hanna Hilbrandt

    Hanna Hilbrandt

    Hanna Hilbrandt serves as a Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Zurich’s (UZH) Geography Department. In addition to researching urban climate finance and governance, Hanna's work explores spaces of mundane transgression, planning conflict, and housing marginality. Her new book Housing in the Margins (Wiley 2021) explores informal dwelling practices in the context of Berlin’s increasingly tight housing market.

    Expertise
    • Housing and Marginalization
    • Planning and urban development in the context of climate change
    • The urbanization of global Climate Finance

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