Bas van Heur is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. Having studied at Utrecht University, the Humboldt University in Berlin and Goldsmiths College, University of London, he submitted his PhD on music production in Berlin and London at the Department of Earth Sciences of the Free University in Berlin. His main research is on the relations between the creative industries, policy regulation and urban change, but this is always informed by a broader interest in transdisciplinary social and cultural theory. Bas van Heur is also interested and involved in developing transdisciplinary collaborations between academic and non-academic researchers.