Luisa Gehriger

Luisa Gehriger is an urban researcher and sociologist with particular expertise in housing studies. Since April 2025, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. Prior to that, she completed her PhD at the Chair of Social Geography and Urban Studies at the University of Zurich, focusing on tenant displacement caused by renovations and evictions due to vacancy. Luisa studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Basel and went on to complete a trans-urban Master's in Urban Studies in Brussels, Copenhagen, Vienna, and Madrid. Alongside her academic work, she has also worked as a policy advisor and campaigner in the field of tenant protection and decommodification. Her research focuses on the political-economic causes of gentrification, urban displacement and exclusion processes, tenants’ movements, and questions of political alienation.