👏 Congrats to Dr. Madalina MEZAROS who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Property, Policy, & Place: #Housing #Inequality & #Gentrification Dynamics in #Luxembourg" 👩‍🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu 🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!

Lovely day in Luxembourg then Dudelange then across border into France today with @douccap.bsky.social & @madalinamez.bsky.social learnt so much 😊

today.rtl.lu/news/luxembo... Went to fireworks with @madalinamez.bsky.social in Luxembourg last night, they were amazing, thanks to @liser.lu for inviting me 😊

proud 🌟 you can read our paper in Urban Studies here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for this inspiring talk!

Field trip day! 🌆 @constanceu.bsky.social and I took our 1st-year Econ students from @uni.lu to explore “Living & Working in the City” in Differdange, Luxembourg. (Credits photo: Vincent Lescaut/ @lessentielde.bsky.social)

Looking back on my one-week research stay in New York and Boston, I’m happy (and a bit amazed) to have ticked everything off my list: 🔴 Visit the DUMBO neighborhood in New York City - a place I’ve read so much about in the gentrification literature;

Join us for a special lunch seminar featuring @madalinamez.bsky.social of @liser.lu on Luxembourg's housing crisis, multinational gentrification, and "domino displacement.” When: April 10, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Where: Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 [Open to Public]

Our Urban Studies article is now open access! 🔓 We introduce ‘gentrification regimes’—using 50 years of property data to reveal how Luxembourg’s housing market shifted from ownership-driven to investor-led, with national fiscal policies fueling buy-to-let gentrification. 📖 tinyurl.com/ycyhd6kk

Honestly, this is my reaction to a lot of current events as well.

The nightmare before Christmas, Romanian edition. #Romania #elections

#Luxembourg starter pack. Of course, you can get by with just English (especially in research) or only one of these three languages... but where's the fun in that? #multilingualism

Hello ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Bluesky! Sharing an article @douccap.bsky.social and I wrote a while ago. We put together two timelines: the evolution of three #housing policies and the evolution of the characteristics of apartment buyers over five decades in Dudelange, #Luxembourg. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....