Claudia Seldin – Bio

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I am an author, urban theorist, and researcher with a focus on critical urban theory and decolonial/postcolonial thinking in Germany and Brazil. My topics of interest are cultural urban policy, social resistance movements, gentrification processes resulting of city marketing and urban branding, the impacts of digitalization on real estate and urban space, and the critique of temporary urbanism and placemaking as neoliberal urbanism. I also have a passion for scientific writing and teaching young minds how to conduct research qualitatively.
I currently work as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and as a guest lecturer at the Urban Management Program of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

I have held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, DAAD, IRS Leibniz Erkner, Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation (Faperj), and the funding agencies of the Brazilian Ministries of Education and Technology (CAPES and CNPq).
I am a former assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I obtained a cum laude Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and Urbanism (2005), a Master’s Degree in Urbanism (2008) and a PhD in Urbanism (2015). My graduate degrees were pursued with research stays at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany.

I was the winner of the Brazilian Ministry of Education’s CAPES PhD Dissertation Prize (2016) and of the VIII Milton Santos Prize for best article, awarded by the Brazilian National Association of Research in Urban and Regional Planning (2017).

I am the author of the book “Urban Images and Resistances: From Capitals of Culture to Creative Cities” (2017) and the editor of the book “Cultures and Resistances in the City” (2018).