Fraya Frehse is a professor of sociology at the Universidade de São Paulo, where she coordinates the Center for Studies and Research on the Sociology of Space and Time (NEPSESTE) and acts as a lead partner of the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS, Technische Universität Berlin). She is an alumna of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a research fellow of the Brazilian National Research Council, and life member of Clare Hall College (University of Cambridge). Her research focuses mainly on urban theory; space, everyday life, and history; space and time in sociology; body, public space, and urbanization (in Brazil); urban mobility; urban inequality/poverty; cultural heritage; urban visual culture; and sociology of everyday knowledge.