Nikos Katsikis is an urbanist working at the intersection of design, urbanization theory, and geospatial analysis. He holds a Doctor of Design (DDeS) from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, and researcher at the Urban Theory Lab, GSD. Katsikis has also taught at the GSD and at the Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association (AA) in London. He has been on the editorial board of the New Geographies journal and co-editor of Grounding Metabolism: New Geographies 6 (HGD, 2014); and his work includes contributions to MONU magazine, Harvard Design Magazine, AD, and Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2014). Nikos Katsikis is co-author with Neil Brenner of the forthcoming Is the World Urban? Towards a Critique of Geospatial Ideology (2020).