Dr Mahsa Nikoufar

Short bio

Mahsa is an urban planner and research associate at the City Science Lab at HafenCity University Hamburg. Her doctorate at Edinburgh Napier University examined how cities develop, govern and adopt urban digital twins. In Hamburg, she works on the COSMOS project, which develops tools and practices for using urban models and simulations in collaboration with local partners.

She studied urban development engineering in Tehran and city and technology at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, where she worked on the Horizon 2020 Pop-Machina project on the maker movement and the circular economy.