Karol Kurnicki

Dr. Karol Kurnicki is a Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig, Germany, focusing on mobilities, digitalization, and urban infrastructures. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Jagiellonian University and has held positions at Lancaster University, University of Warwick, and Jagiellonian University.

Education: PhD in Sociology (2015, Jagiellonian University), MA in Sociology (2009, Jagiellonian University). His interdisciplinary background includes studies in humanities and social sciences.

Research interests center on mobilities, digitalization of urban spaces, platform economies, and spatial justice. Key areas include parking practices as socio-spatial dynamics, transnational border towns, and the role of architecture in ideological production.

He leads the Mobilities and Migration research area at IfL and contributes to the Upheavals and Transformations Leibniz Lab and ScienceCampus EEGA. His recent project MObility and Digitalisation (MOBI-DIG) explores digital urban transformation challenges.

Publications span 12+ peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with influential work on parking as infrastructural practice and smart city limitations. His monograph Ideologies in a City (2018) critiques spatial ideologies through architectural lenses.

Engagement includes research infrastructure development at IfL, including cartography and digital archives. He collaborates internationally on urban sociology and transnational studies.