Delft University of Technology
Maarten van Ham is professor of Urban Geography at the Department of Urbanisms, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology.
Maarten studied economic geography at Utrecht University, where he obtained his PhD with honours in 2002. He worked at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University and was affiliated with the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. In 2006 he was appointed Director of the Centre for Housing Research (CHR) at the University of St Andrews for six years. In 2011 he was appointed full Professor of Geography at the University of St Andrews in the UK and full Professor of Urban Geography at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Maarten has published over 120 academic papers and 11 edited books. He is a highly cited academic with research projects in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Spain, Egypt and China. Maarten has expertise in the fields of urban poverty and inequality, segregation, residential mobility and migration; neighbourhood effects; urban and neighbourhood change; housing market behaviour and housing choice; geography of labour markets; spatial mismatch of workers and employment opportunities. In 2014 Maarten was awarded an European Research Council grant to investigate Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects (DEPRIVEDHOODS), see http://www.deprivedhoods.eu/. One of the major outcomes of this project are two books on socio-economic segregation in European cities and globally. The European book is called Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities. East meets West (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758879) The book with 24 case study cities from all over the world is called Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality. A Global Perspective (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64569-4). Both books show that globally, with rising inequality, cities are becoming more socio-economically segregated: poor and rich are increasingly living separated. The books also show that the geography of urban inequality is changing as affluence is concentrating in the central attractive parts of cities, while poverty is suburbanising.
Personal website: www.maartenvanham.nl