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 how (in)justices are experienced in everyday practices, particularly in relation to mobilities and sustainable change. She works on the NWO-funded JUSTNEXUS project, in collaboration with Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam and Hogeschool Utrecht, and other societal partners. She is also a visiting scholar at the Copernicus Institute - Utrecht University where she serves as the JUSTNEXUS project coordinator, and a visiting scholar at the Technology, Innovation and Society group - TU Eindhoven.

Clara is a teacher in the Sustainability Science, Policy and Society Master's program of Maastricht University. She also supervises student theses on topics related to mobility, justice and sustainability. 

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 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 mobilities and transport 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 and the British press.

Clara serves as treasurer of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M). She was also part of the local organizing committee of the 2025 T2M international conference taking place at TU Eindhoven in November 2025.