Pablo Acebillo is a spatial and urban planner at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore. His current research focuses on large-scale, mixed-use urban projects, also known as ‘Grand Projets.’ It aims to identify their processes and mechanisms, characteristics and designs, transformation over time and influence on the urban context of
contemporary European and Asian cities. Parallel to that, he is involved in the conception and masterplanning of the Tanjong Pagar Waterfront in Singapore, a container terminal which will betransformed into a future oriented new cluster.

Prior to joining FCL, Pablo Acebillo worked at the 'Institute for Spatial- and Landscape Planning' at ETH Zurich, where he focused on strategic planning and the integration of infrastructures with the spatial environment. Specifically, how infrastructure corridor development can act as a catalyst for economic and urban development
in European regions.

He also worked at 'Gehry Partners' and 'AS Architectural Systems Office' on architectural and urban projects at multiple scales including the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Museum, the Quarter B Urban Cluster in Kazan as well as the Strategic Urban Project of Ekaterinburg.

Pablo Acebillo holds a MSc Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems from the ETH Zurich after completing his Master Thesis "Hinterland Port Development in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona". Prior to it, he obtained his BSc Architecture from the University of Lugano.