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Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement
Faculté de Géographie et d'Aménagement
3 rue de l'Argonne - 67000 STRASBOURG
Bureau 417
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Research projects
- 2022-2026: Access, urban policy and the geographies of dis/ability (PhD thesis) supervized by Prof. Christophe Enaux (UMR CNRS LIVE) and Dr. Sandrine Knobé (UR Sport et sciences sociales).
- 2021-2024: Assistant coordinator, JPI Urban Europe Joining Urban morphology, Spatio-Temporal and socio-cognitive accessibility for an Inclusive City Environment (ANR, Innoviris, TÜBİTAK).
- 2018-2020: Research assistant, ERC Elites, Networks and Power in modern China (Institute for Asian Research, Aix-Marseille University).
I teach geography and planning, specializing on quantitative-dominant mixed methods. My PhD dissertation focused on the development of participatory approaches for measuring transit and public space accessibility. I am now investigating the ways in which population ageing reshapes inequalities within the built environment.
My research mainly engages with mobility or territorial studies, notably by questioning how advances in geo/visualization can bridge perspectives among citizens, planners, advocacy, and their governments.
Publications and dissemination
Peer-reviewed papers
- Pons, A., Bréjat, S., Finance, O. and Conesa, A. (2026). Beyond the standardization trap: a critical quantitative perspective on disabilities across transit and public spaces. Journal of Urban Mobility.
- Conesa, A., Dere, I., Nihoul, A., ..., Pons, A. (2025). Routes to justice: bridging conceived and perceived public transport accessibility through user participation. Transportation.
- Pons, A., Finance, O. and Conesa, A. (2024). The fuel of discontent? Transport poverty risks and equity concerns in French urban peripheries. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(7), 1598-1613.
Working/Conference papers
- Conesa, A., Pons, A., and Nihoul, A. (2025). A mixed-methods study on inequalities in accessibility: Evidence from Brussels and Strasbourg. Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility. Springer Lecture Notes in Mobility.
- Pons, A. (2024). Participative approaches for accessibility planning: a review and applications. AESOP Annual Congress, Sciences Po Paris.
- Pons et al. (2024). Mind the gap! How does unequal access to the city affect persons with reduced mobility? Poster and interactive atlas presented at the French quantitative geography meetings, Besançon. Jury prize
Other presentations
- Pons, A. and Fujiki, K. (2026). Towards a dynamic demographic approach to residential vulnerability: how does population ageing shape private housing in a changing climate? Interactions between Residential Location, Housing, and Mobility, RGS-IBG Conference, London.
- Pons, A. et al. (2026). Maps, knowledge, and disabling environments: where do we stand? Mapping Inequality Critically, RGS-IBG Conference, London.
- Pons, A. (2023). Une « périurbanisation de la pauvreté » ? Vulnérabilités énergétiques et mobilités quotidiennes autour de Lyon (1999-2019). 24èmes Rencontres internationales en urbanisme de l’APERAU, Université de Lausanne.
- Conesa, A., Pons, A. et al. (2022). Mobilizing accessibility: combining modelling and participative approaches to assess public transport inclusiveness. NECTAR Conference, University of Toronto.
- Pons, A. (2022). Visualiser l’accessibilité : du potentiel aux vulnérabilités. 4èmes Rencontres Francophones Transports et Mobilités, Université du Luxembourg.
Additional experience
Teaching (>400 hours)
- Temporary Lecturer, University of Strasbourg:
- Advanced Static Cartography (90h) | Social and Cultural Geography (49h) | Critical and Radical Geographies (36h) | Mentored Projects (22h);
[undergraduate level] - Data Visualization (13h) | Geostatistics (13h) | Open Web Mapping (26h) | Climate, Energy and Mobility (20h).
[graduate level]
- Advanced Static Cartography (90h) | Social and Cultural Geography (49h) | Critical and Radical Geographies (36h) | Mentored Projects (22h);
- Assisted in a range of undergraduate courses: Economic Geography (56h) | Fundamentals of Population Science (18h) | Introduction to Geopolitics (40h) | Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (44h) | Topics in Human Geography (20h).
Miscellaneous
- Benchmarked French commercial community land trusts for Urbanova.
- Designed infographic panels for an urban mobility exhibition hosted by the Greater Strasbourg Authority.
- Coordinating the development of an open-source observatory on local politics, daily mobility and affective polarization.
- Reviewer for the Journal of Urban Mobility, L'Espace politique, Rzine.
Education and training
2022-2026: Université de Strasbourg, PhD in Geography and Planning.
- Doctoral Summer School on Climate Change and Cities, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
- Visited the Center for Urban Science and Policy, TU Delft (2023).
2017-2021: École normale supérieure de Lyon, major in Geography.
- Research Intern at the University of Edinburgh, VisHub Lab (2019).
- Chinese Language Program, East China Normal University (Shanghai).
2015-2017: Khâgne B/L, Lycée Lakanal (Grand Paris).