Devisari is the Research Scenario Coordinator for Archipelago Cities. Trained as an architect and urban planner, she obtained her PhD degree in Urbanism from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Master degree in both 'Conservation of historic buildings and towns', and 'Social and cultural anthropology' from Katholieke Universitet Leuven (Belgium).
 
Prior to joining Future Cities Laboratory, she worked as a research fellow and an academic staff in the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (National University of Singapore) and Delft University of Technology. She was involved in various research projects related to urban sustainability assessment, impact of built environment on community life, and urban socio-spatial fragmentation.
 
Devisari was the president of the Megacities Foundation in the Netherlands, and the founder of Papiroz academic publishing house which had published books for GIZ, IUAV, TU Delft and IFoU.  Before embarking on her academic career, she had worked on various historic building conservation projects in Belgium and joined an EU-funded archaeological excavation team in North Messopotamia for several years.

Research  

Devisari's current research interests focus on urban development pattern in the developing world (in particular Indonesia), urban socio-spatial fragmentation, housing, and sustainable urban development in general.
 
She is coordinating FCL’s efforts to expand their research network and collaborations in the ASEAN+ region.
 
She is the Singaporean collaborator of LSE Resource Urbanism research project which is co-funded by LSE Kuwait Programme and it aims at examining multiple aspects of how natural resources, urban form and infrastructure affect each other and potentially lead to the establishment of divergent forms of urbanism.
 
Apart from this she is also spearheading the Future Cities Laboratory’s Collaborative Research Project which aims to study the pattern and the dynamics of collaborations among multidisciplinary researchers.  The project is a collaboration with Dr Maria Papadopoulou, Kristina Jazuk and Dr Heiko Aydt.

Education

Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Katholieke Universitet Leuven (Belgium)