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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.

Maarten LOOPMANS

Current position
Academic coordinator ‘master in stedenbouw en ruimtelijke planning’ Erasmushogeschool Brussel Postdoc researcher at COSMOPOLIS
Contact: maarten.loopmans@gmail.com

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Phone: +32 (0)2 629 37 41
Fax: 02 629 33 78

Academic background and route

After graduating in geography in 1999, Maarten Loopmans started his career as a researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Geography (ISEG) at the KULeuven. He got an FWO scholarship from 2001-2006 to work on a PhD titled ‘urban governance, neighbourhoods and organized residents: resident mobilization and urban policies in Antwerp, Belgium’ at the ISEG. Meanwhile, he also worked as a temporary researcher at the universities of Urbino (Italy), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the Hogeschool Ghent (Belgium). After finishing his PhD in 2007, he became lecturer at the Master of Urbanism and Spatial Planning at the Erasmus University College Brussels.

His main research topics were –and still are- urban policies, urban development, spatial planning and resident mobilization/urban movements, with a focus on the issue of marginal populations (having conducted research on prostitution, asylum seekers, poor people,…).

Research projects supervised/participated in:
Achtergestelde buurten, economische integratie en stedelijk beleid (ISEG, KULeuven i.o.v. de Vlaamse Gemeenschap) Mensen Maken de Stad (ASSR, Universiteit van Amsterdam, i.o.v. Gemeente Rotterdam) Cities of Europe: Visual Lab (Institute of Sociology, University of Urbino, fellowship European RTN-Urban Europe) hergebruik van klassieke woonwijken in Vlaanderen (Hogeschool Gent, i.s.m. Grontmij en XDGA, i.o.v. RWO, Vlaamse Gemeenschap) LACSAWEP- Landscape Capacity and Social Attitudes towards Wind Energy Parks in Belgium (ISEG, KULeuven i.s.m. FRG, KULeuven and Rural Geography, ULg i.o.v. BELSPO) Prostitutie in Brussel in kaart gebracht (Erasmus University College Brussels, i.s.m. Seinpost Adviesbureau BV, Arnhem, i.o.v. Ministerie van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest) Een sociale geografie van remittances: Transferts van België naar Senegal als case-studie (PhD-study by Karen Stuyck, ISEG, KULeuven) Stadslandbouw als overlevingsstrategie en overlevingsstrategieën van boeren in een verstedelijkte omgeving. Case studie: Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso (PhD-study by Sarah Luyten, ISEG, KULeuven) Utopie, heterotopie en stadsprojecten (PhD-study by Sofie Vermeulen, Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel and Cosmopolis, VUB) Ordering complexity (PhD-study by Nadia Casabella, Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel and Cosmopolis, VUB)