C.G. Glachant

Clara Glachant is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute of the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University. Her research examines practices and business models in the energy-mobility-housing nexus and just sustainability transitions. She works with Dr. Marc Dijk on the NWO-funded JUSTNEXUS project, in collaboration with Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam and Hogeschool Utrecht, and other societal partners. 

Clara pursued a PhD within the Technology, Innovation and Society group of the Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences Department at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her PhD research focused on the representations and identities of micromobilities in mobility transitions in the Netherlands and the UK (full text here). During her PhD, she was involved in the Innovative Light ELEctric Vehicles for Active and Digital TravEl (ELEVATE) project: reducing mobility-related energy demand and carbon emissions, working with Universities of Brighton, Leeds and Oxford. She also served as a visiting scholar in the Innovation Studies group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development (Utrecht University) where she researched translocal initiatives and just sustainability transitions.

Clara's research is published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of transport and mobility studies, environmental research and public health, and geography. She presented her work at multiple international conferences and seminars (academic and policy). Her research was also featured in the Dutch press and innovation-oriented media.

Clara is involved in several networks, notably the Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST), for which she assisted in organizing the 2022 PhD School on Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability Transitions Research. She is also engaged in the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), where she was part of the local organizing committee of the 2025 T2M international conference taking place at TU Eindhoven in November 2025.