Nikos Katsikis is an urbanist and educator working at the intersection of urbanization theory, design and geospatial analysis. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Urbanism Department, TU Delft, were he co-leads the Critical Environments group; and Affiliated Researcher at Urban Theory Lab Chicago. He holds a professional diploma of Architecture and an MSc in Design-Space-Culture from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), both with highest distinction, and a Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). At the GSD he was also on the editorial board of the New Geographies journal and co-editor of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism, and has served as Instructor in Urban Planning and Design. Nikos’ work is invested in developing a geographical approach to urban metabolism. It seeks to uncover and address the complex social and ecological processes that shape the biogeographical interdependencies between cities and the much wider landscapes of primary production, circulation, and waste disposal that underpin them. His research combines cartographic and theoretical investigation to develop original spatial concepts and methods that can grasp the extended geographies of contemporary urbanization, across scales, across species, and beyond the boundaries of the city. His work includes, among others, contributions in Anthropocene Review, Architectural Design (AD), Technospheres, Strelka Magazine, Harvard Design Magazine, New Geographies and MONU; the volumes Manhattan: Grid for Ordering an Island (with Joan Busquets) and Positions on Emancipation (with Florian Hertweck); and the books Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization (with Grga Bašić, Neil Brenner, and Mariano Gomez Luque) and Environments of Planetary Urbanization (with Neil Brenner and Swarnabh Ghosh). He teaches and lectures internationally and his creative work with the Urban Theory Lab has been widely exhibited in venues such as the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism.