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Michael is a research scientist with the CSIR-Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI), a public research organization in Ghana. He is particularly interested in crime geography, geographic information systems (GIS), urban studies, migration studies, and the postcolonial geographies of Africa.
Michael joined CSIR-INSTI in June 2021 after completing his PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy. Michael’s doctoral thesis focused on the containerization of urban space where he epistemologically deconstructed containerization from global political economy to critical urban studies. During his doctoral studies, he became a visiting research scholar at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and HTW Berlin- University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
In 2022, Michael collaborated with Prof. Lukasz Stanek (Taubman College, University of Michigan) on an International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) funded project called “Asutsuare Rebound”. The project studied the reuse, reappropriation, and re-valorisation of modernist planning in Asutsuare, a rural community in Ghana.
Michael reviewed manuscripts for several journals, including the Journal of Criminology, Quaestiones Geographicae, and Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society.
Michael is an alumnus of Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta Turkey in 2017, where he pursued an M.A. in Geography. Michael was also an Erasmus Mundus exchange student at the Pedagogical University of Krakow in Poland, where he researched the geographies of industrial transformation in postsocialist countries. Michael has a B.A. in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana, Legon in 2013. Between 2014 and 2015, Michael served as a research assistant with the Centre for Migration Studies of the University of Ghana.