Alexander Czeh

Doctoral Candidate

Alexander Czeh is a researcher at the Institute for Transport Research of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) and an expert in sustainable mobility with a specific focus on active mobility, cargo bikes, paratransit, and spatial justice in city and transport planning. He is doing his PhD at the Faculty of Architecture at Technische Universität Braunschweig on the potential of the mobility transition for redesigning urban spaces. Specifically, he investigates whether the areas currently occupied by car infrastructure that will be rendered superfluous by the mobility transition can be reused to gain more living spaces. Alexander Czeh studied at the Technical Universities of Dresden, Delft, and Berlin, and holds an MBA in Sustainable Mobility Management and an MSc in Economics of Transport. He has worked as a scientist, consultant, and GIS analyst in development cooperation as well as in the public and private sector based in Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Laos, Liberia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, and Vietnam. He is a member of the European Institute for Sustainable Transport and is involved locally in the district representative committee Turmstraße and the association Changing Cities, which strives for a mobility transition in urban and transport planning.