Claudia Seldin is an author, urban theorist, researcher and lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and Urban Management Program of the TU Berlin. She has a PhD in Urban Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She works at the intersection of critical urban theory and decolonial perspectives, examining cultural urban policy, city marketing and branding, neoliberal placemaking strategies, the digitalization of urban space, gentrification, and resistance movements.