Clara Glachant was a PhD candidate on Smart, Active and Sustainable Micromobility (2021-2025) in the Technology, Innovation and Society group of the Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences Department at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research examines the representations, and identities associated with micromobility and mobility transitions in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. She was supervised by Dr. Frauke Behrendt and Prof. Dr. Ruth Oldenziel. Clara defended her PhD on 3 November 2025 (full text here). 

As of September 2025, Clara is a postdoctoral researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute of Maastricht University. You can reach her at her new Maastricht University email address. She is part of the NWO-funded JUSTNEXUS project, which investigates how new imaginaries and experiments that integrate mobility, energy and housing can foster just sustainability transitions.

Clara's research is published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of transport and mobility 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 press and innovation-oriented media.

During her PhD, Clara was also involved in the Innovative Light ELEctric Vehicles for Active and Digital TravEl (ELEVATE): reducing mobility-related energy demand and carbon emissions, working with Universities of Brighton, Leeds and Oxford. As part of this project, she is developing her mixed-method expertise, collaborating on analyses combining survey and interview data. 

Clara was a visiting scholar in the Innovation Studies group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development (Utrecht University) where she researches translocal initiatives and just sustainability transitions with Prof. Avelino and Dr. Pel. As part of her visit, Clara was involved with the special interest group on Just, Power and Transformative Action in Sustainability JUPITA. 

Clara is involved in several networks, notably the Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST), for which she assisted in organizing the 2022 PhD School on Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability Transitions Research. She is also engaged in the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), where she is part of the local organizing committee of the 2025 T2M international conference that took place in Eindhoven in November 2025.

Clara has been an active member of the TIS PhD Community Committee which organized workshops and social events for PhDs and postdocs of the TIS research group.

Clara has a background in Political Science (MA at Sciences Po Lille) and Urban Governance/Public Adminstration (MSc at Erasmus University Rotterdam). During her studies, she interned at the Municipality of The Hague, at the mobility consultancy firm Goudappel Coffeng and at the JUSTRA Cities Network of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Clara has been teaching several courses in TU Eindhoven's Sustainable Innovation BSc. This included mobility-related courses at TU Eindhoven, such as an introductory course on the Future of Mobility, as well as a project-based course involving external stakeholders like the Cities of Amsterdam and Helmond and PostNL. She has also been teaching courses on topics of sustainability and disruptive technologies. 

Clara also supervises BSc and MSc students at TU Eindhoven, on mobility-related topics and more broadly to sustainable innovations and transitions. She obtained her University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO) on supervising.