Education

In Delft, I co-design, co-organise and lecture in several BSc, MSc, and professional master courses. In addition, I also love to design and organise international study trips, particularly for professionals in the field. Supervising graduate and PhD research projects is a great part of my job, because it lets me work more personally with talented people with very diverse backgrounds. Finally, I am a grateful and returning lecturer at several universities in The Netherlands and abroad. Guest talks at Columbia University in New York City and Tongji University in Shanghai count as highlights in my career.

Delft University of Technology

Co-Initiator of the project 'Values in Urban Area Development: A Quick Start Video for Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations, 2019-2020
Co-Developer of the TU Delft DIMI Innovation Airports Initiative, Airport Regions theme, 2016-2017
Co-Developer of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) Center for Metropolis & Mainport, World Port City theme, 2015-2017.

Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

AR2R025 Urban (Re)Development Game: Integrating Planning, Design & Property Development
AR3R010 Graduation Laboratory Management in the Built Environment (MBE)
BK BSc Course ON5 Gebiedsontwikkeling.

Thesis Committee Member of Ph.D. candidate Irene Y. Zhang titled 'Reconnecting the port and the city based on port-city interface redevelopment: A comparative case study of Rotterdam and Shanghai'. Promotors: prof.dr. P.M. Ache, dr.ir. L. Carton and dr. P.J. Beckers, Rijksuniversiteit Nijmegen (RUN), July 12, 2022
Co-Promotor and Daily Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate Simon van Zoest on Financial and Governance Institutions for Sustainable Area Development, 2020-present
Co-Promotor and Daily Supervisor of external Ph.D. candidate Merten Nefs (Vereniging Deltametropool) on the Process and Outcomes of Large-Scale Distribution Centres, 2019-present
Co-Promotor and Daily Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate Céline Janssen on Social Sustainability in the Area Development Implementation Process, 2019-present
Co-Promotor and Daily Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate José Manuel Pagés Sánchez on Institutions for Sustainable Port-City Relations in Europe, 2016-2019
Co-Promotor and Daily Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate Paolo de Martino on Understanding the Evolution of Port-City Relations: The Case of Naples (Italy), 2015-2021
Co-Promotor of Jesse M. Keenan, Ph.D. on Understanding Adaptive Capacity in Real Estate and the Built Environment: Climate Change and Extreme Weather in New York City, 2013-2016
Supervisor of 30+ Graduate Students for M.Sc. Thesis (Management in the Built Environment, Explore Lab and Master City Developer), 2006-present.

PhD and MSc research supervision

Professional Master Programs

Academic Co-Director of the Master City Developer (MCD) program, 2021-present
Co-Developer of the Professional Education Course 'Strategie in Gebiedsontwikkeling for the ASRE/MCD, 2020
Lecturer in the Metropool Master Course 'Strategie' for the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam-The Hague 2018-present
Module Coordinator for Master City Developer (MCD), 2016-present;
Program Manager and Module Coordinator for Master City Developer (MCD), a post-experience M.Sc. program in collaboration with the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010-2016;
Lecturer in the Master of Real Estate (MRE) of TIAS School for Business and Society in Tilburg, 2013-2018
Module Coordinator and Lecturer in the Master of Strategic Urban Studies (MSUS), Module The Investing City, in association with the Netherlands School of Public Administration, 2008-2013.

Guest Lectures

BPD Academy, Nieuwe samenwerkingsvormen, October 2022
ASRE Amsterdam School of Real Estate, Strategie voor gebiedsontwikkeling, September 2022
TIAS School for Business and Society, Master of Real Estate (MRE), 2013-2018
University of Antwerp, Faculty of Management Sciences, Master Urban and Regional Planning, 2015-2018
Tongji University Shanghai, College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Master of Architecture & Urban Planning, October 2015
University of Amsterdam, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Master Urban & Regional Planning (Urban Planning & Real Estate course), 2012-2014
Columbia University New York City, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (Lunch Seminar), October 2014
Columbia University New York City, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (during Rotterdam Field Trip), September 2013
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KULAK, leergang ‘Gebiedsontwikkeling en vastgoed: van project tot realisatie’, November 2012
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute for Housing & Urban Development Studies, Master Urban Management & Development, January 2011
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics, Master Urban, Port & Transport Economics (Seminar Port Cities in Transition), March 2007.

International Study Trips

Academic study trips are more than field trips to exciting cities. They are specifically designed to experience and actively learn about how things work in non-Dutch urban planning and development practices. When we are abroad, the (usually Dutch) professionals that join my trips are challenged to perform a mini case study and present their results on the final day of the program. This helps participants to get the most out of their journey--a learning experience to remember.

I have designed and co-organised trips to the following destintations:

International Study Trips 3-6 days

2008, 2009 and 2011: Hamburg, Germany
2010: Barcelona, Spain
2012: Istanbul, Turkey
2011, 2013, 2016, and 2017: Boston (MA) & New York City (NY), USA

From November 12-16, 2018, the destination of the international module of the Master City Developer program was New York City (NY). The module included visits to Pratt Institute, the City University of New York and New York University in NYC.

Photo: Master City Developer visits NYU in November 2018

Next to the above, I also orgnised several single day study trips to the port city of Antwerp in Belgium. All trips have been planned and coordinated together with local universities, and included lectures from local academics, practitioners and other experts. After all, who understands a city beter then the people that work on it every day!