Thando Tilmann is a scientific coordinator at the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS) at Technische Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue on complex global challenges and making scientific knowledge more accessible to wider audiences. She has conceptualised and developed projects addressing questions of cultural heritage and decolonisation — including the video series Decolonial Thinking with Prof. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni. She holds an interdisciplinary MPhil in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge, where her research explored the public policies and regulatory frameworks needed to manage natural resources more effectively.
