Former Scientific Staff:
Research Assistant in Urban Geography from 2022 to 2025 in the SNSF Research Project ‘The Urbanization of Global Climate Finance’ with Prof. Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt.
 

Master's Thesis
Predictive Slum Mapping: The Global Program for Resilient Housing and the World Bank’s Experimentation with Geospatial Technologies
This MA thesis investigates the World Bank’s Global Program for Resilient Housing (GPRH) and its use of drone imagery, Street View, and machine learning to map disaster-prone informal settlements. Operating across more than a dozen cities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia, the program uses  diverse urban environments as testbeds for geospatial technologies. Drawing on reports and expert interviews, the thesis characterizes the GPRH’s approach to ‘resilient housing’ and examines the re-adaptation of its geospatial methodology to different urban contexts. Using the concept of ‘informational peripheries’, the thesis demonstrates how the World Bank's mobilization of geospatial knowledge in the name of 'urban resilience' transforms the governance of urban peripheries across the Global South. 

Publications:
Grafe, Fritz-Julius and Jung, Christian “Urban Climate Neutrality: Swiss Development Projects and Urban Climate Finance in Rajkot”, Geographica Helvetica (forthcoming)