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About

The Commoning Mobility platform is coordinated by Dr. Anna Nikolaeva, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam. For information about Anna's research, visit:

Contributors

Lotte Reijnders

Lotte Reijnders graduated from the Research Master Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 2024. She is a researcher at Ipsos I&O where she works on issues related to democracy and governance. Though gender-sensitive urban planning practices are not a focus of her work, she is very much involved with the theme of gender-sensitive urban planning and research.

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Irene Gómez-Varo

Irene Gómez-Varo is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam, where she has held a postdoc in 2024-2026 working in the Gendered Mobilities project. In Spring 2026 Irene will start her project “Toward Just and Caring Mobility: Epistemological Tools for the Planning of Care-Full Cities” as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies of the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Her doctoral work investigated proximity-based environments and daily life dynamics, focusing on mobility and gender. She has been a visiting researcher at Université Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Tokyo, and RMIT University in Melbourne. Her academic background includes a BA in Sociology (University of Barcelona) and a Master’s in Population and Territorial Studies (UAB).

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