Professor Pieter van Wesemael, SUM participant in the NWO-SURF Smart Cycling Futures Research Consortium, is professor of Urbanism and Urban Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven, received both his Master and PhD with honor (cum laude) from the Technical University of Delft (NL). For two decades, he headed a consultancy and design office in urban design, area development, and spatial policy. He has published widely on topics related to sustainable evolutionary urban development based on a full understanding of the development logic of correlated economic/technological, socio-cultural, and spatial development. He is founder of the Urban Lab at TU Eindhoven, a platform for applied research, in which actors of the triple helix collaborate on policy research and case studies in sustainable urban development and urbanized region.