Gertjan Wijburg

Gertjan Wijburg studied Sociology at the University of Amsrterdam and received his master degree in 2012. His master thesis focused on the origin and rise of the modern architecture movement in Europe and the United States and discussed the aesthetic and societal perspectives from modern architects, including Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier.

In 2013 he started his PhD in Geography at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is involved in the ERC-funded REFCOM-project (see weblink to personal page) and focuses on the financialization of real estate markets in Germany and France. In 2014-2015 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Human Geography at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Research interests

Financialization, political economy, urban sociology, human geography, financial geography.

To know more

Gertjan Wijburg's institutional page

The Real Estate/Financial Complex (REFCOM)