tu.hosts Keynote by Prof. Isabelle Anguelovski

Title: Rights, Risks, and Resilience: Rethinking Cities in the Climate Emergency
Time and venue: Wednesday, 8 April 2026, 10 am. MBIII/E. 001 (Campus Süd)
Prof. Isabelle Anguelovski is a leading scholar in environmental justice, climate adaptation, and green inequalities, whose research has fundamentally shaped the field and redefined international debates on how sustainability transitions relate to social equity. Her publications include seminal works on green gentrification (Nature Communications, 2022), heat racism and urban heat justice (Nature Cities, 2025), and health equity (Annual Review of Public Health, 2023).
She has led and co-led major competitive grants, including the ERC Starting Grant GREENLULUs (ranked #1 in the SH3 panel) and the María de Maeztu excellence funding, raising over 8 million Euros since 2011. Among her numerous distinctions, she is recognized as one of Spain's leading female researchers and is listed in the world's 2% most-influential scientists (Urban & Reg. Planning, 2024). Her expertise leads to frequent invitations to consult and advise European and municipal institutions on sustainability and related efforts. She is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.
Her keynote at TU Dortmund University will be hosted by our lab member, Víctor Cobs-Muñoz, who is a grant holder of the 'tu.hosts program' of the university's Graduate Center.