Carola Hein is professor and chair of history of architecture and urban planning at Delft University of Technology, professor at Leiden and Erasmus University and UNESCO chair on water, ports and historic cities. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban, and planning history and has tied historical analysis to contemporary development. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, and Volkswagen Foundation grants for a mixed method digital humanities project. She serves as president of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) and her (co-)edited books and monographs include Oil Spaces (2021), Urbanisation of the Sea (2020), Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (2020), The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2018), Uzō Nishiyama: Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space (2017), History, Urbanism, Resilience: Proceedings of the 2016 IPHS Conference (2016), Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011), Brussels: Perspectives on a European Capital (2007), European Brussels. Whose Capital? Whose City? (2006), The Capital of Europe (2004), Rebuilding Urban Japan After 1945 (2003), Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan (2006), and Hauptstadt Berlin 1957–58 (1991).