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Centre for urban research
COSMOPOLIS. City, Culture
& Society

Free University Brussels

Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel
Tel: + 32 (0) 2 629 37 41
Fax: + 32 (0) 2 629 33 78
cosmopolis@vub.ac.be

COSMOPOLIS is related to the department of Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a member of the UAB Urban Studies Network, an interdisciplinary research and teaching network in urban studies.

Eric CORIJN, director of COSMOPOLIS

Current position
Professor Social and Cultural Geography
Director of Cosmopolis and chair of UAB Brussels Stadsplatform

Contact: eacorijn@vub.ac.be

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F333, Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels, Belgium

Phone: 02/ 629 33 79
Fax: 02/ 629 33 78

Academic background and route
Is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Free University of Brussels and teaches also at the Master in Tourism at University of Leuven (Belgium). Formerly also thought at the universities of Deusto (Bilbao-Spain), Tilburg (The Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Vesalius College-Brussels (Belgium), at the Catedra Unesco de Politiques Culturals I Cooperacio at the University of Girona (Spain).

Is co-director of POLIS, a joint masters degree in European Urban Cultures of the universities of Brussels (VUB), Tilburg (UvT), Manchester (MMU) and Helsinki(UADH) and of “4Cities”, a UNICA-Euromaster in Urban Studies with the universities of Brussels, Vienna, Kopenhagen and Madrid.

Is the director of the centre for urban research at the Free University of Brussels: COSMOPOLIS, City, Culture & Society and coordinator of UABrusselsStadsplatform, a platform of Brussels urban studies.

Holds degrees in Zoology, Philosophy and Science Dynamics from the universities of Ghent and Brussels (Belgium), did postgraduate studies in Futures Research (Utrecht and Amsterdam - The Netherlands) and Psychoanalysis (Ghent-Belgium), holds diploma’s from Art School (in Sculpture and in Monumental Arts- RHoK-Brussels - Belgium) and holds a PhD in the Social Sciences from Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

Is the author of over 190 publications on a wide range of subjects