With a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), he is a graduate of the école polytechnique d’architecture et d’urbanisme d’Alger (Algiers, 2007) and also has a master’s in Urban Planning and Development from the UCL (2009). He is a researcher at the EPFL’s (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LaSUR) and a visiting professor at UCL. He is also a consultant for the Mobile Lives Forum. His areas of research focus on the relationship between urban planning and mobility, urban forms, public spaces and the interplay between actors who produce the territory.