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Lena Imeraj

  • category
    professor
  • research groups
    Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research
    Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies
  • keywords
    migration & diversity
    demography & population
    spatial studies & geographic information systems

Lena Imeraj is the postdoctoral research coordinator of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. In addition to her role at the Centre, she holds positions as a part-time professor in Sociology at Interface Demography and professor in Urban Studies at Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, both at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Lena's research interests are diverse, covering various topics within population studies and the fields of urban and human geography. Her work primarily focuses on neighbourhood population changes and segregation, life course perspectives on residential change and segregation, residential mobility and residential decision making, ethnic inequalities, and migrant settlement and integration. She possesses expertise in quantitative methodologies and advanced statistical techniques.

Over the years, Lena has actively participated in a range of international and interdisciplinary projects, which include ResSegr (JPI Urban Europe), Cities and Newcomers (VUB Interdisciplinary Research Programme), Bruxodus (INNOVIRIS), BRUTUS (VUB-Foundation), and AirBRU (INNOVIRIS). Recently she started an FWO project on residential segregation of minoritised communities from a life course and experience-based perspective.