PhD Fellow

Vikas Badge

Vikas, a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, focuses on sustainable urban mobility, integrating urban planning, transportation engineering, and environmental science. His research examines bottom-up innovation processes, using electric rickshaws as a case study for eco-friendly last-mile connectivity in rapidly growing cities. By highlighting community-driven solutions and efficient resource use, Vikas emphasizes their role in shaping inclusive, resilient, and scalable urban mobility systems. His interdisciplinary approach bridges theory and practice, developing evidence-based policies to foster sustainable urban development and address the global challenges of urban transportation.

PhD Fellow

Lindsay Broadwell

Lindsay’s PhD research aims to unpack critical-constructive perspectives of conflicts and interactions between different types of cyclists and the limits of best practice bicycle infrastructure. Linsday’s work contributes to mulit-disciplinary threads in cycling research, integrating perspectives from social psychology and behavioral scholarship

PhD Fellow & Sino-Dutch Mobility Strategic Lead

Ran Zhang

Ran is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, dedicated to unpacking the transformative potential of cycling. Her research seeks to reframe the cycling experience by exploring it as a diverse embodied practice, a socially embedded phenomenon, and a process of interaction and negotiation on the move.

Parallel to her academic work, Ran is passionate about fostering Sino-Dutch mobility collaboration and knowledge co-creation. Leveraging her deep understanding of both contexts, she facilitates a dynamic exchange between long-standing Dutch cycling expertise and Chinese mobility innovation, translating these synergies into actionable transport solutions.

Visiting PhD

Mohammad Nazarpoor

Mohammad is a visiting PhD and a cycling activist. His research interests lie in understanding cycling practices from an anthropological perspective, exploring issues of power, space, gender, culture, and politics. His current research focuses on the lived experience of urban cycling, aiming to discover how cycling can phenomenologically change urban experiences.

PhD Fellow

Bárbara Oliveira Soares

Bárbara is a PhD researcher at Utrecht University, where she investigates how gender differences influence Dutch urban planning practices and how gender-sensitive approaches can be integrated into urban development. Her work delves into the intersections of social equity, intersectionality, and urban planning, with the goal of identifying policies that promote more inclusive and accessible cities. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Urban Cycling Institute, where she explored issues of inclusion, equity, and mobility justice within Amsterdam’s cycling culture and environment.

PhD Fellow

Michael Tahmoressi

Michael is a communication studies researcher and a PhD fellow at the Urban Cycling Institute. For the past year and a half, he has been researching bicycle repair communities in the Netherlands and the reciprocal bicycle and human relationship.

Fellow

Kelly Rodgers

Kelly Rodgers, PhD, MLA, LEED-AP, has 15 years of transportation planning experience and 10 years of experience working in city and green infrastructure planning. Kelly works across disciplines to develop innovative policy and practice solutions that create transportation systems that work for everyone. Key focus areas of her work involve connecting transportation investments to community outcomes and using indicators to translate policy into practice.