More than architecture:
A landscape-oriented interpretation of the
conservation and reuse Beijing’s historic gardens
PhD-candidate:
Jingsen Lian Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Dr Gregory Bracken (co-promotor) Period: October 2022 – October 2025
Funding: CSC
The sustainable dimension of
the peri-urban landscape: From infrastructural to liveable spaces through
water-based morphological approaches in urban design, planning, and practice
PhD-candidate:
Mustiafiz Al Mamun
Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Dr Caroline Newton (co-promotor) Period: May 2022 – May 2025
Funding: Prime Minister Fellowship, Governance Innovation Unit Prime Minister's Office, Bangladesh
A Landscape approach towards urban water crisis in Karachi.
Design principles for water sensitive planning and design
PhD-candidate:
Amna Riaz Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Dr Inge Bobbink (co-promotor) Period: March 2022 – March 2025
Funding: Chief
Minister Merit Scholarship (CMMS), The Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF)
Participatory Governance of Ecological Space in the Megapolis
PhD-candidate:
Lei Xia Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Dr Diego Sepulveda (co-promotor) Period: October 2022 – October 2025
Funding: Scholarship Guangdong Province
Urban agriculture for sustainable urban renewal. Design, policy,
implementation
PhD-candidate:
Yu Huan Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Dr Nico Tillie (co-promotor) Period: April 2021 – April 2025
Funding: Private resources
Blue space design. Spatial principles for healthy high density urban environments
PhD-candidate:
Haoxiang Zhang
Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Dr Caroline Newton (co-promotor) Period: April 2021 – April 2025
Funding: Chinese Scholarship Council, Nuffic
Perception and design of urban wilderness. Comparative study on the
perceptions of Chinese and Western Citizens and their implications for planning
and design
PhD-candidate:
Chen Yuan
Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Prof Dr Machiel van Dorst (promotor) Period: March 2021 – March 2025
Funding: CSC
GIS-based visual analysis and strategies for planning and design of heritage landscapes
PhD-candidate:
Yuyang
Peng
Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Prof Dr Jantien Stoter (promotor), Dr Giorgio Agugiaro (co-promotor) Period: March 2020 – March 2024
Funding: Private resources
Sustainable Green Space Design in High-Density Urban Environment: Spatial Strategies and Principles
PhD-candidate: Shile Zhou Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Rients Dijkstra (co-promotor) Period: March 2019 – March 2023 Funding: Chinese Scholarship Council & TU Delft
Completed PhD Research
Shorescape: Designing sustainable coastal buffer zones (Cum Laude)
PhD-candidate: Ir Janneke van Bergen Supervision: Prof Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Eric Luiten (promotor) Period:
2017-2023 Funding:
NWO
Top Sector Water Program
Adaptive African New Towns: An Alternative Approach for Urban Development in Low-Resource Settings (completed 2020)
PhD-candidate: Ir Rachel Keeton Supervision: Prof Dr Han Meyer (promotor), Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor) Period: May 2016 – November 2020 Funding: TU Delft Global Initiative & International New Town Institute
Mapping Landscape Spaces: Interpretation, Measurement, and Evaluation of Spatio-visual Characteristics in Landscape Design (completed 2020)
PhD-candidate: Mei Liu Supervision: Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor), Prof Dirk Sijmons (promotor) Period: September 2015 – December 2020 Funding: Chinese Scholarship Council & TU Delft
Pearl River Delta: Scales, Times, Domains: A Mapping Method for the Exploration of Rapidly Urbanizng Deltas (completed 2020)
PhD-candidate: Liang Xiong Supervision: Prof Dr Han Meijer (promotor), Dr Steffen Nijhuis (promotor)
Period:
2011-2020
Funding: Private resources
PhD-candidate: Ir Nico Tillie Supervision: Prof Dr Andy v/d Dobbelsteen (promotor), Dr Steffen Nijhuis (co-promotor) Period: September 2012 – September 2018 Funding: Municipality of Rotterdam & TU Delft
The Art of Bridge Design: Identifying a design approach for well-integrated, integrally-designed and socially-valued bridges (completed 2019)
PhD-candidate: Ir Joris Smits Supervision: Prof Rob Nijsse (promotor), Dr Steffen Nijhuis (co-promotor) Period: September 2014 – May 2019 Funding:
Royal HaskoningDHV & TU Delft
