ROUVIER-PONS Armand

• 2021-2025 : 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).

Peer-reviewed papers

• Pons A., Bréjat S., Finance O. and Conesa A. (under review). The standardization trap: (mis)recognizing disabilities across transit and public spaces. Submitted to the Journal of Urban Mobility.
• Conesa A., Dere I., Nihoul A., ..., Pons A. (R1: major revision). Routes to justice: bridging conceived and perceived public transport accessibility through user participation. Submitted to 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).

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, 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. (2025). Le droit à la mobilité au défi du « clivage rural-urbain ». 7èmes Journées européennes de la mobilité, Strasbourg.
• 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.

• Teaching assistant (178 hours, mostly undergraduate courses): Economic Geography (56h) | Global Demography (18h) | Contemporary Geopolitics (40h) | Sociological Analysis (44h) | Transport Policy and Planning (20h).
• Consultancy:
  • Benchmarked French commercial community land trusts (Urbanova).
  • Designed infographic panels for an urban mobility exhibition (Greater Strasbourg Authority).
  • Coordinating a multi-stakeholder observatory promoting dialogue on everyday mobility practices (under development with Chôros and Transdev). 

2021-2025: 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: ENS 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).