Asst Prof. Dr Markus SCHLAEPFER

Co-Investigator of Powering the City and Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification

Markus Schläpfer is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he leads the external page Urban Systems Engineering Lab.

His research goal is to develop a science-based understanding of cities and use these insights to design people-centric and efficient urban infrastructures. To achieve this goal, Markus Schläpfer and his research group combine new urban analytics and complexity science approaches with state-of-the-art infrastructure engineering techniques.

Prof. Schläpfer's work has been published in top-tier venues such as Nature (twice) and has been covered in the media worldwide. In addition, he won several prizes, including the First Prize in the Data for Development Challenge (2015), and he has been Finalist in the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year (2021).

Projects:

Powering the City
Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification

Affiliation

Columbia University