174I_Aapo Huovila, senior scientist at Technical Research Centre of Finland

Are you interested in sustainable and smart cities? What do you think about the city as the scene of real change? How can we use urban rankings better?

Interview with Aapo Huovila, senior scientist at Technical Research Centre of Finland. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, keeping urban specifics, climate change, city as the place of real change, and many more.

Aapo Huovila is a Senior scientist at Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. His research is currently focused on evaluation of climate-neutral, sustainable and smart cities. He works as a project manager and senior researcher in research, innovation and commercial projects (for examples, NetZeroCities, Matchup Project or Sparcs). He is the chair of the “Monitoring & Evaluation” Task group within the EU H2020 Smart cities & communities research & innovation program and acts as subject editor in the journal IET Smart cities.

Find out more about Aapo through these links:

Aapo Huovila on LinkedIn;
@aapo_huovila as Aapo Huovila on Twitter;
Aapo Huovila at the Technical Research Centre of Finland;
Aapo Huovila on Google Scholar;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.008R - What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities?
No.141 - Interview with Soheil Sabri about prediction and forecasting;
No.173R

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