Lorenzo Vidal

Uppsala Universitet

Biography

Lorenzo Vidal is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala Universitet in Sweden, working on the project, O2A-From Ownership to Access: Digital and Policy Tools for Building Post-Homeownership Futures. He is also collaborator with the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and associate researcher at CIDOB-Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. He holds a PhD in Political Science, Public Policies and International Relations from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Master’s degree in International Economics and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid. His main research interests centre on urban political economy, with a focus on housing, property and digital transformations. In Barcelona, he is a member of the Sindicat de Barri del Poble Sec (Poble Sec Neighbourhood Union), Ateneu La Base, and the Sotrac housing cooperative.