Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. phil.) is Professor for Digital Urban Cultures at the HafenCity University Hamburg.
She heads the CityScienceLab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA, USA), which researches on the future of cities (with a special focus put on digitalisation).
She is also the academic director of UNITAC, a United Nations Innovation and Technology Lab (UN Habitat, OICT) that conducts global research on the use of technology in informal settlements.
She is co-founder of the digital geo-referenced workspace comaps.
She was Humbolt-Scholarship recipient (Feodor Lynen program) at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge/ USA in 2020/21.
From 2012 to 2020 she was Vice President Research at HafenCity University Hamburg.
Publications (selected):
- Digitale Stadt: Kuratierte Daten für urbane Kollaborationen (transcript).
- Digital City Science (editor, Jovis).
- New Stakeholders of Urban Change (editor, Jovis).
- Komplizenschaft - Neue Perspektiven auf Kollektivität (transcript).
- Digitale Stadt (transcript).