Deljana Iossifova is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the School of Environment, Education and Development and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester. Deljana trained as an architect at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and has a PhD in Public Policy Design from Tokyo Institute of Technology. She serves as a Member of the Board of the Urban Studies Foundation and is lead editor of 'Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and professional perspectives' (Routledge, 2017).
Deljana led the ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (2015-2017) with partners in the UK, China, Brazil and Japan - building partnerships with academics and practitioners towards the development of innovative approaches to the study of cities using a complexity framework, Big Data and emerging technology.
Before joining the University of Manchester, Iossifova was a research fellow on the international collaborative project ‘Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment’ (SCIBE) at the University of Westminster. She was an Our Common Future Fellow (Volkswagen Foundation) and UNU-IAS PhD/Postdoctoral Fellow on the Sustainable Urban Futures programme at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies (now the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability).
Dr Iossifova has many years of experience as a practising architect and led on a number of award-winning master planning and architectural projects, including ‘Beijing Daxing New Media City’ and ‘DressCode Flagship Store’ in Tokyo.
