Researcher
Gaoli Xiao
Room A 709
T + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21908
F + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21907
Curriculum Vitae
Gaoli Xiao is a researcher in the Habitat Unit at TU Berlin and a PhD candidate at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn. Her current research project, Urban-Rural Assembly, explores socio-spatial inequalities, migration, and mobility at the rapidly transitioning urban-rural interface in Huangyan-Taizhou, China. Her research engages with critical migration theories, neoliberalism, power, and structure/agency. She received her double M.Sc. degree in International Cooperation in Urban Development and Urban Planning from TU Darmstadt in Germany and the University of Grenoble in France. Before joining the Habitat Unit, she worked on climate-related research projects such as carbon emission control, air quality management, and urban resilience at ICLEI and C4ED. She has also gained practical experience in infrastructure project management in Brazil and China.
2020-2021
M.Sc. International Cooperation in Urban Planning
Université Grenoble Alpes, France
2019-2020
M.Sc. International Cooperation in Urban Development
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
2011-2016
B.Eng. Civil Engineering Management
Chongqing Jiaotong University, China
Since 2023
Researcher
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
2022
Research assistant
Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED), Mannheim
2021-2023
Research assistant
China Center in TU Berlin (CCST), TU Berlin
2019
Urban program intern
ICLEI East Asia Secretariat, Seoul
2017-2018
Engineer
SDC DO BRASIL Servicos Maritimos LTDA, Rio de Janeiro
2016-2017
Engineer
CHEC Dredging Co., Ltd.; Shanghai
Since 2021
“Urban-rural Assembly: Managing inclusive transformation-to-sustainability processes at the urban-rural interface of the Huangyan-Taizhou region in China"
2022
“Impact Evaluation of the Chinese Emission Trade Scheme Policy on GHG Emission Reduction”, C4ED
2019
“A comparative study of air quality management in NYC, Beijing, California, Seoul and Tokyo”, ICLEI
2023
New patterns of Chinese inter-regional and cross-border migration, Seminar with Ava Lynam, TU Berlin
2023
with Ava Lynam, Fengquing Li, Huang Huang, Liyuan Fei, Lukas Utzig (2023): “Capturing socio-spatial inequality in planetary urbanisation: A multi-dimensional methodological framework", Cities,132(4):104076. (Open Access)
2023
with Kit Kat Braybrooke, Ava Lynam. (2023): "Living Lab, interrupted? Exploring new methods for postdigital exchange on WeChat with urban-rural Living Labs in China and Germany during COVID-19", Journal of Science Communication, 22(03). (Open Acces)
2022
with Ava Lynam (2022): "Ethnographic portraits of immigration and emigration in small towns and villages in Huanggyan-Taizhou", URA preiodical #2: Dialogues
2022
“Neoliberal urbanization with Chinese characteristics? Actor-networks and power relations in development-led rural land transfer” in N-AERUS XXI, University of Kassel, 27 – 29 October 2022
2021
“Rural-Urban Transformation in China: understanding socio-spatial inequalities at the urban-rural interfaces” in SPURT - Sustainable Processes of Urban-Rural Transformation, Hosted online by the China Center in TU Berlin, 6-10 Dec 2021
2021
“A multi-dimensional and multi-data approach for understanding socio-spatial inequalities (re)shaping urban-rural transitional zones” in SMUS Conference Botswana / TU Berlin, 25 - 29 October 2021
2023 – 2027
DAAD scholarship