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Luce Beeckmans
Luce Beeckmans graduated as a civil engineer-architect in 2005 at Ghent University (Belgium). She then worked as an architect and urban planner at Stéphane Beel Architects. From 2007 she was a research assistant at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG), where she obtained a Ph.D. in history of architecture and urbanism. In her doctoral dissertation ‘Making the African city’ she studied the urban (planning) history in Africa from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Since 2013 she is a full-time post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning of Ghent University. In 2016 she was granted an FWO post-doctoral fellowship in which she further develops her research track on spatial manifestations of African diaspora in European mid-sized cities.