Reza Aghanejad is a PhD candidate in the Urban Development & Mobility Department. His PhD is part of the FragMent project, and he will be assessing the effects of urban environments on momentary stress using Virtual Reality: a case study on the temporal fragmentation of exposure patterns. His thesis supervision committee is composed of Martin DIJST, Camille PERCHOUX, and Amit BIRENBOIM.

He holds two master’s degrees, one in GIS and Remote Sensing from Tehran University and one in Geography and Spatial Planning from the University of Luxembourg. His research interests concern assessing the effects of daily life environments on health and active mobility. He is also interested in issues related to GIS sciences, Immersive Virtual Environments (IVE), human-computer interactions, data science, and RS&GIS sciences.