SEC scholar 1 June 2025 – 31 August 2025
Julio Paulos is Associate Research Director at ETH Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), where he leads the strategic integration of research aimed at promoting sustainable urban living. He is an interdisciplinary urban scholar working at the intersection of urban studies, planning theory, and science and technology studies. His research focuses on the political and democratic challenges of urban transformation, with a particular emphasis on participatory urbanism and the formation of publics.
Julio earned his PhD in Urban Anthropology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2021. He previously held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (2020–2023) and as a research assistant at ETH Zurich (2014–2018), with fellowships at the Technical University of Munich (2017) and Mines ParisTech (2018).
During his visit at KTH Digital Futures, Julio will advance research on shifting modes of urban expertise. This work forms part of a co-edited volume (with Jenny Lindblad and Jonathan Metzger) examining how knowledge production in urban fields is evolving in response to changing political and socio-technological conditions.
Contact: dajulio@ethz.ch
