Dr Centner is a sociologist, a geographer, an urbanist, and a development scholar whose diverse research portfolio revolves around a core interest in urban transformation at the nexus of social, spatial, and economic change. He focuses on how the built environment as well as people’s conditions and experiences are linked together, always with a view to how shifting broader projects and circumstances mediate these. He has a range of research, teaching, and advising interests (see below for details). Before joining the LSE, he was faculty in the Department of Sociology at Tufts University; he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has had visiting affiliations in Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Irvine, Los Angeles, and Paris. He is the organiser of the weekly guest speaker seminar series for the Urbanisation, Planning & Development cluster at the LSE during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. At the end of Lent Term each year, Dr Centner leads the undergraduate field course in Havana, Cuba. During the (Northern Hemisphere) summer, he co-teaches a field course in Cape Town, South Africa, on African urban planning and development as part of the LSE-UCT July School curriculum. He is currently the Chair of the Urban Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society.