Nitin Bathla

is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at UZH and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich. Nitin studied urban design at ETH Zurich and architecture at the Institute of Environmental Design in India. His PhD research focuses on investigating circular migration to Indian cities as an emerging phenomenon of extended urbanisation. Between 2013-2016, he worked in India under various capacities as a policy researcher and grassroots design practitioner. Prior to 2012, he worked as an architecture and planning practitioner in India and Africa. His interests lie in action research, transformative change making, and history and theory of migration.