Our Team + Partners

Kent directs the City Science (formerly Changing Places) group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities. To that end, his projects include advanced simulation and augmented reality for urban design, transformable micro-housing for millennials, mobility-on-demand systems that create alternatives to private automobiles, and Urban Living Lab deployments in Hamburg, Andorra, Taipei, and Boston. 

Markus is an Architect and Urban Planner interested in the intersection between data-driven urban analysis tools and policy strategy for rapidly expanding or urbanizing cities. Markus joined the L3 group to work on research and deployments. Prior to joining L3, Markus worked for eight-years at the Boston based architecture and urban design firm Machado and Silvetti Associates where he worked on projects including the Getty Museum in LA, the Rockefeller Cultural Center in NY, and the American University in Beirut. More recently, he served for nine-years as the Executive Director of a public/private development corporation responsible for two urban expansion regions east and west of Cairo, Egypt. His current work is focused on new approaches to urban management and collaboration strategies for large scale urban interventions.

A member of L3 and a Research Scientist at MIT, Carson specializes in Architectural science and the development of digital design instruments. His current work explores reinforcing the link between man and machine in a design process.

As a researcher in the field of responsive design and space, his focus is the development of user interfaces through both hardware and software. This includes sensory applications that involve data acquisition, activity recognition, proximity based systems and wireless communications. 

Thomas is an engineer, artist, and scientist with a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab at the Opera of the Future Group and a bachelor's degree in engineer and computer science from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico.

Before joining the Media Lab, Thomas was working in different creative industries as a technologist and creative coder.  He worked in Mexico City, NYC, and Germany. He also worked as a researcher at the MIT Physics Department, where he developed and created technologies to study human color perception

He volunteers in Clubes de Ciencia Mexico. A non-profit organization that  focuses on expanding access to high-quality science education in Mexico and Latin-America.

Luis Alonso is a research scientist in the City Science group and Principal Investigator of the Andorra Living Lab Project. He has a PhD in architecture and coordinates the Andorra Living Lab project. He oversees the integration of the group's diverse research topics (energy consumption, city simulation, urban mobility, innovation district, and smart housing) in City Science Network of Collaborative Cities, to provide comprehensive solutions for urban and country challenges, in order to transform cities into more diverse and vibrant "human scale ecosystems."

Ronan Doorley has a PhD in civil, structural, and environmental engineering, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. His previous research focused on modeling transportation networks, and quantifying and optimizing the impacts of sustainable transportation interventions. His current research applies spatial analysis, machine learning, and optimization in order to enable evidence-based urban planning and design of mobility systems.

John is a researcher, entrepreneur, and activist around decentralized, autonomous, self-organizing systems with a focus on generative governance and finance for climate change and social equity.

He is the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (Perseus, Public Affairs, 2007)[1] and a number of other books and publications. He edited The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprises (Jossey Bass, 1998),[2] contributed to The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping The Offline World,[3] and co-edited (with David Bollier) From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society.[4]

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