Madalina Mezaros is a PhD Candidate in the Urban Development & Mobility Department. Her project GentriLux aims to link social changes to property wealth inequalities in Luxembourg. In her thesis, she will develop a method to identify homeownership and property investment gentrification and explore the ways in which gentrification has intersected with migration trajectories. Madalina’s research is funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund under the AFR Individual Scheme. Her CET is composed of Antoine Paccoud, Philippe Van Kerm and Loretta Lees at Leicester University.

Madalina completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Human Resources at the University of Bucharest (RO) and at Lund University (SE), followed by a Master’s degree in Social Sciences and Educational Sciences at the University of Luxembourg.  She has worked as a realtor and advisor on both the residential and commercial real estate markets in Luxembourg.