Stephan Hauser

Stephan Hauser is a PhD candidate at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in the Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning. His research focuses on the impact of oil companies on the de-velopment of port cities and on the creation and application of regulations linked to spatial plan-ning, and the protection of health and the environment. The case studies are mainly in Nortwhest Europe, like Dunkirk and Rotterdam, to assess the influence of European regulations and develop-ments.
Coming from a legal background and passing through some medical studies, he merged in his pub-lications and his research many disciplines such as history, urban planning, environment, laws and health. This fascination for multi-disciplinary approaches also derived from an internship in the European Council of Town Planners, which led him to pursue a PhD on the complex relation be-tween oil flows, and the European legal frameworks that emerged in response to and in prepara-tion for oil-related spaces and environments.