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Pia Laborgne is a sociologist and sustainability researcher at the Karlsruhe Transformation Centre for Sustainability and Cultural Change/KIT in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her work focuses on urban sustainability transformations with a focus on energy and food systems, e.g. in terms of local governance, participation, knowledge co-creation and transdisciplinary research. In order to contribute to the co-creation of sustainability transformations, she is particularly interested in exploring how we can design transdisciplinary transformative research in an inclusive, engaging and motivating way to empower and involve many different people, perspectives, needs and ideas. Pia is coordinator of the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) and co-chair of the UERA TWG 4 "Governance & Participation".