Senior Researcher

Dr. Ioanna Stavroulaki

Dr Ioanna Stavroulaki is a Senior researcher at the Division of Urban Design and Planning, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. She is a member of the Spatial Morphology Group since 2015 (smog.chalmers.se). She conducts basic and applied research in spatial morphology at urban and building scale, with a focus on developing descriptive analytical methods and digital tools for spatial analysis and modelling (e.g., Place Syntax Tool), to understand the relation of spatial form, human behaviour, and social activity. She is co-founder of the Urban Calculator AB, a non-profit company that specialises in developing design-oriented analytic tools for architects, urban designers, and planners (e.g., Urban Calculator). She teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate courses with a focus on system thinking and evidence-based design at the Department of Architecture at Chalmers University.