LISER's Department of Urban Development and Mobility

❓How can research drive impactful policy innovation?
Society in Motion invites you to explore this question together.

🚀 Get ready for an immersive, full-day event on 23 September 2025.

We look forward to welcoming you!

#SaveTheDate #SocietyInMotion #SiMLISER #FutureOfSociety #PolicyInnovation

Tickets : Workshop MOEBIUS : The Transformation of EU Borders in the Era of Artificial Intelligence... Tickets : Workshop MOEBIUS : The Transformation of EU Borders in the Era of Artificial Intelligence... - Billetweb

[workshop] "The Transformation of EU Borders in the Era of AI"
📅 18 Sept. 2025
🕠 14h-17h CET
📍 Online
Niovi Vavoula, Evelien Brouwer, Tamás Molnár, Amanda Musco Eklund, Chris Jones & I.
www.billetweb.fr/workshop-moe...
IUF @icmigrations.bsky.social @ediec-4185.bsky.social

Research Analyst in Social Sciences and Territorial Dynamics (f/m) - Ref: 25-16 Research Analyst in Social Sciences and Territorial Dynamics (f/m) - Ref: 25-16

📢JOB OPENING

🔹LISER is recruiting a Research Analyst in #SocialSciences & Territorial Dynamics

💡The person recruited will work as part of an interdisciplinary team, in particular on the city of #Luxembourg observatory.

⏳ This position will remain open until filled: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

International Journal of Housing Policy Publishes research on housing policy, systems and practice from a social science perspective and seeks to place it in the context of other public policies.

🎁 Bonus: On the topic of housing and the IJHP (International Journal of Housing Policy).

In January 2025, LISER Researcher @constanceu.bsky.social was appointed as the new book review editor! Kudos Constance!

ℹ️ www.tandfonline.com/journals/reu...

3/3

The political economy of housing: the case of Turkey Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2025)

🔎 Discover a NEW book review forum in the summer issue of IJHP

📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📘 Review by Prof. Berry:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2/3

📣 BOOK "The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey" authored by LISER researcher @sila-demirors.bsky.social

ℹ️ Prof. Demirörs explores the analytical & historical process of how #housing, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself.

🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

1/3

👋 A big welcome to #Luxembourg Prof. Lees!

🗣️ We are looking forward to your presentation today: "Developing an Anti-Displacement Tool for the City of Louisville"

ℹ️ Event details: www.liser.lu/events//RSSU...

#urbanization #urbanpolicy #gentrification #housing #affordablehousing

👏 Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Hercelin who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Valuation controversies across lithium-ion battery global production networks".

🎓 He has received a PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu

🙏 Kudos to his PhD supervisors & jury members!

proud 🌟 you can read our paper in Urban Studies here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🗺️ BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2025

The 2 day event (June 5/6) @uni.lu brings together #transport researchers from universities & research centres in Benelux but also researchers from abroad w/ an interest in #transport & #mobility in the #Benelux

🔗 Learn more: www.liser.lu/events//BIVE...

Field trip day! 🌆 @constanceu.bsky.social and I took our 1st-year Econ students from @uni.lu to explore “Living & Working in the City” in Differdange, Luxembourg.

(Credits photo: Vincent Lescaut/ @lessentielde.bsky.social)

🚆 BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2025 are back to Luxembourg!

Organised by the UDM department of LISER, the MobiLab Transport Research Group, and the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at @uni.lu

🔗 Learn more about the conference and how to participate:
www.liser.lu/events//BIVE...

📣 Upcoming Research Seminar: 'Measure for Measure: Assessing What Cities Make Us Capable Of'.

📅 May 20th 11h CET (Hybrid Event)

🗣️ Ivan Blečić (Uni. of Cagliari) will shed light on #urban quality of life: how to measure + what it means to improve it.

🔗 Register here: www.liser.lu/events/RSS_2...

⭐In March and April 2025, Dr Sabine Dörry from LISER joined the @ioer.bsky.social (IOER) as the first fellow of its new Fellowship Programme.

💬 Join the conversation here:

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

ℹ️ Read the full interview by Heike Hensel/IOER Media here:

www.ioer.de/en/press/new...

📣 Discover a great article by @ioer.bsky.social interviewing UDM researcher Dr. Sabine Dörry.

💡 Learn about the IOER Fellowship Programme + how sustainable development is not possible w/out the financial sector.

🗣️ "Financial markets must be more strongly aligned with sustainability goals" -Sabine

📣 We are hiring a PhD Candidate in #Urban #Mobility (3 yr contract) for the #TRANSFORMProject

ℹ️ Investigate the efficacy of transformative practices as mechanisms for initiating & consolidating transitions in urban mobility cultures + analyses the resulting socio-spatial effects.

📅Apply by June 15

🪙 La Doume and Beki are both #LocalCurrencies, monetary systems created within a community to encourage local spending & stimulate economic growth.

🎙️Listen to the latest #SciLux ep with Dr Gilles Evrard Essuman to learn more!

@liser.lu @scihanna.bsky.social

Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults - European Journal of Ageing Out-of-home mobility and neighborhood environment have been, respectively, shown to be associated with older adults’ cognitive abilities and they may have combined effects. Adopting an ecological pers...

📢Paper alert:
Older adults' daily mobility & working memory! 🧠🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
- Neighborhoods matter for links b/w daily max distance from home & working memory
- Positive association b/w distance & working memory in areas w/ more land use mix-diversity & more places for walking/cycling. doi.org/10.1007/s104...

📣 Upcoming Research Seminar - Disruptive #Urbanisation: 22@ #Barcelona #Innovation District and #DigitalUrbanism

📅 April 29th at 11h CET (Hybrid Event)

🗣️ Presentation by Ramon Ribera Fumaz (@monrf.bsky.social) of @uocuniversitat.bsky.social

🔗 Register here: event.liser.lu?type=module&...

#GeoSky

📣 Our department is hiring a Research Analyst in #SocialSciences and #TerritorialDynamics ( 2 year contract).

ℹ️ Note: there is no deadline to apply as the position will remain open until filled, so don't delay and apply today.

Do you work on people's #mobility & social #interactions across country #borders, and how these form functional border #regions?

See CfP to our Special Issue “Moving & interacting across borders: a people-centric approach to reimagine border regions" @regionalstudies.bsky.social

👉 lnkd.in/dQkzKvGJ

💡 Discover the new website of the @ec.europa.eu funded project: TRANSPORT

It addresses the challenge of #urbanmobility from a comprehensive view of how urban mobility cultures evolve over time, focusing on concrete aspects of the interaction b/t urban & #transportsystems

🔗 www.transformresearch.eu

Luxembourg's Commuter and Resident Mobility: key findings from a research study ...
link to the podcast based on my scientific paper: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/1e6...

📣New publication: Multi-view Deep Embedded Clustering: Exploring a new dimension of #airpollution

✍️Coauthored by H. Kassem, S. El Hajjar, F. Abdallah & @hichemo.bsky.social

🆕 #AI identified 4 zones in #Luxembourg which helps urban planners target interventions where needed most @uslnyc.bsky.social

📢 WE ARE HIRING!
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LISER seeks a PhD candidate to study forest tree health and air pollution using satellite data, analyse tree mortality in Luxembourg, and share findings via research, publications, and presentations.
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✍️ Learn more and apply for the job here:
shorturl.at/3Uy4t

Join us for a special lunch seminar featuring @madalinamez.bsky.social of @liser.lu on Luxembourg's housing crisis, multinational gentrification, and "domino displacement.”

When: April 10, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET
Where: Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 [Open to Public]

🆕 Job opportunity!

🔹 LISER is recruiting a Research Associate in the field of #GeoSpatial #ArtificialIntelligence

💡The successful candidate will develop a thematic research agenda supported by the use of #GeoAI in line w/ UDM's research directions

⏳ Apply by 28/03: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

📣Kick-off of the Symposium "To pay or not to pay: The role of fares in #publictransport"

🗣️Prof. @wojciechkeblowski.bsky.social presents "Fare-free public transport as an #urbanpolicy: an international perspective"

🔗Event info www.liser.lu/to-pay-or-no...

#FFPT #FareFreePublicTransport #Luxembourg

📣 Day2 of the Young Researchers Conference "Identify Constructions and meaning-making in #BorderRegions"

🗣️ Prof. P.A. Beylier of @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social presents "Borders and identities: the case study of a cross-border region & other theoretical considerations".

🔗 www.liser.lu/Call-for-Pap...

🚀Launch of the Inaugural #LISERPolicyLab

🗣️ LISER CEO Aline Muller & Dep. Director Frédéric Docquier welcome about 300 attendees.

ℹ️ The event gathers key stakeholders + researchers to support #policymakers in the design, implementation & evaluation of #publicpolicies

🔗 www.liser.lu/event-policy...