Ms Mervi Ilmonen

School of Engineering/Department of Built Environment/Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering Research Group (Aalto University)

Mervi Ilmonen has a background in social policy, human geography and urban planning. She is a long time editor of the Finnish Journal of Urban Studies, the main scientific urban research journal in Finland. She has been co-ordinating the PhD program in Urban and Planning Studies, a joint program of HUT and Helsinki University and has therefore an interest in researchers training and mobility issues. She has researched and written in the field of urban policy, housing policy, social exclusion, differentiation, urban culture and cultural planning.