Dominik BeckersDominik Beckers is a research associate at The Business School of Edinburgh Napier University and PhD student at the Academy of Architecture of Urban Studies of Tallinn University of Technology. He previously worked in policy consulting for more thanfour years. His academic background comprises a Master of Science Degree in Human Geography from Lund University as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Business Economics from Utrecht University. Over the past years, Dominik has been involved in the development and execution of multiple national and EU-wide strategies, evaluations, and studies. In this context, topics such as governance, urban and regional development, sustainable development, circular economy, eco-innovation, and entrepreneurship have all featured highly on his agenda.

In his PhD, Dominik builds on this experience and focusses on the governance of smart city transitions by investigating issues such as adaptive governance, multilevel governance or scale. Read More Read Less