RESEARCH PROFILE

Clara Glachant was a PhD candidate on Smart, Active and Sustainable Micromobility (2021-2025) in the Technology, Innovation and Society group of the Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences Department at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research examines the representations, and identities associated with micromobility and mobility transitions in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. She was supervised by and Prof. Dr. Ruth Oldenziel. Clara defended her PhD on 3 November 2025 (full text ). 

As of September 2025, Clara is a postdoctoral researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute of Maastricht University. You can reach her at her new Maastricht University email address. She is part of the NWO-funded JUSTNEXUS project, which investigates how new imaginaries and experiments that integrate mobility, energy and housing can foster just sustainability transitions.

Clara's research is published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of transport and mobility studies, environmental research and public health, and geography. She presented her work at multiple international conferences and seminars (academic and policy). Her research was also featured in the and .

During her PhD, Clara was also involved in the , working with Universities of Brighton, Leeds and Oxford. As part of this project, she is developing her mixed-method expertise, collaborating on analyses combining survey and interview data. 

Clara was a visiting scholar in the Innovation Studies group at the (Utrecht University) where she researches translocal initiatives and just sustainability transitions with Prof. Avelino and Dr. Pel. As part of her visit, Clara was involved with the . 

Clara is involved in several networks, notably , for which she assisted in organizing the 2022 PhD School on Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability Transitions Research. She is also engaged in , where she is part of the local organizing committee of the that took place in Eindhoven in November 2025.

Clara has been an active member of the TIS PhD Community Committee which organized workshops and social events for PhDs and postdocs of the TIS research group.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Clara has a background in Political Science (MA at Sciences Po Lille) and Urban Governance/Public Adminstration (MSc at Erasmus University Rotterdam). During her studies, she interned at the Municipality of The Hague, at the mobility consultancy firm and at the  of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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