Forskning

Juan Carlos Finck Carrales holds a Ph.d. degree from the Program of Society, Space and Technology from Roskilde University of Denmark; a Master’s degree in Urban Development Projects from the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City; and a Bachelor’s degree in Policy and Social Management from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana of Mexico.

His transdisciplinary research profile intersects the fields of Public Policy, Mobility, Urban and Transport Planning, and Decolonial Studies. He teaches at the International Bachelor in Social Sciences, the Bachelor in Global Humanities, and the Master of Nordic Urban Planning Studies (NUPS), and used to be the Coordinator of the Language Profile Program of Roskilde University (2020-2024). He is also a Professional Consultant on Green Mobility, Urban Planning, and Social Communication in Copenhagen.

In 2025, he joined the EU-Horizon AHEAD Project as Postdoctoral Researcher, where he designs, develops, and analyzes qualitative and quantitative methods and methodologies for user experience, satisfaction, and behavior in two EVs charging Demo sites in Sjælland, Denmark.

He is also currently the Research Leader of the project titled 'Analyzing Cycling and Alternative Transportation Behavior of Vulnerable Groups in Copenhagen through a Nordic Sustainable Model' at DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia, which started in 2025 and aims to study the city’s vulnerable groups, looking at intersections of marginalized ethnic minorities, family caregivers, and neurodivergent populations to understand their mobility needs and behaviors, and alternative transportation current and potential parking practices in the city.

Finally, Juan C. Finck used to work for nearly five years (2011-2015) as a Social Communication Manager in the private sector for Mexican governmental institutions and political parties. Furthermore, he was General Secretary of the Mexican NGO ActúaDF for two years (2014-2015), which has implemented projects related to social inclusion and justice in peripheral underserved neighborhoods of Mexico City. He has participated in urban planning and transport design projects in Mexico City, whose diagnoses and conclusions have been reproduced in different media and in the policymaking of the city.

RESEARCH

–Sustainable Transport Planning

–Green Mobility

–Informal/Alternative Transportation

–Urban Planning

–Decolonial studies (transmodernity)

–Reflexive and abductive methodologies (interpretative approach)

–Participatory and ethnographic focuses

–Interviews, fieldwork (photography and recorded videos), participatory workshops (consensus conferences), counting and tracing, statistics and survey

LECTURES

Transdisciplinary Thinking from the Global South. Whose Problems, whose solutions? // Introduction, Development, Transmodernity, Climate Crisis | Roskilde University, Denmark | SIB – SAB – Humbach – Global Humanities (Spring/2019, Spring/2020, Spring/2023, Spring/2025)

Sociology // French Sociology, Max Weber's Theory, Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory, Global Stratification | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2019, Fall/2020, Fall/2021)

Spanish Language Profile | Roskilde University, Denmark | Fall/2018, Spring/2019, Fall/2019, Spring/2020, Fall/2020, Spring/2021, Fall/2021, Spring/2022, Fall/2022, Spring/2023, Fall/2023) 

Analytical Strategies, Applied Approaches | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Spring/2018)

WORKSHOPS

BA solo writer project | Roskilde University, Denmark | Bachelor Program in Global Humanities (Spring/2025)

Philosophy of Science | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2024)

Study techniques | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2022)

Project group work | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2022)

Feedback forms | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2022) 

Reading and understanding quantitative methods | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2019)

Choosing and applying theories | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2020)

Collecting data and applying methods | Roskilde University, Denmark | International Social Science Bachelor's degree program (Fall/2020)

PROGRAM COORDINATION

The Language Profile Program | Roskilde University, Denmark | Sambach, Humbach, Humtek (Spring/2020, Fall/2020, Spring/2021, Fall/2021, Spring/2022, Fall/2022, Spring/2023, Fall/2023, Spring/2024, Fall/2024)

COURSE COORDINATION

Transdisciplinary Thinking from the Global South. Whose Problems, whose solutions? | Roskilde University, Denmark | SIB – SAB – Humbach – Global Humanities (Spring/2023, Spring/2025) 

Spanish Language Profile | Roskilde University, Denmark | SIB – SAB – Humbach – Global Humanities (Fall/2018, Spring/2019, Fall/2019, Spring/2020, Fall/2020, Spring/2021, Fall/2021, Spring/2022, Fall/2022, Spring/2023, Fall/2023)