Claire Pelgrims
Pelgrims Claire (PhD) is a researcher, F.R.S. FNRS Research Fellow (2016–2020), in Architecture and Urbanism at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her PhD thesis focuses on imaginaries of fast and slow mobilities in the evolution of Brussels mobility infrastructure since the middle of the 20th century. Her research focuses on expanded understanding of mobility infrastructure in relation to gender, aestheticism and functionality.
Claire has also been involved in researches on Brussels metropolitan cultural and mobility infrastructures (18th-21st century) (micm-ARC) and on sustainable transition of company mobility (BSI chair). Associate researcher at the Laboratory on Urban Sociology [LaSUR], EPFL, since 2017, she has joined T2M Executive Committee in 2019 and is involved as member in the French 'Passé, present mobilité' [P2M] network and in the International Ambiances Network.
contact: claire.pelgrims@ulb.ac.be