Immo Janssen is a mobility planner and research associate in the research group Co-Creation in Democratic Practice at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Center Potsdam, where he is involved in the projects Sprachkompass and KlimaKieze.

For the past three years, he also has been coordinator of the Anlauf- und Koordinationsstelle für öffentliche Räume (AKöR), where he accompanied the transformation of the Samariterkiez and Lausitzer Platz, among others. As intermediary structure, AKöR supports cooperative initiatives from administration, science and civil society for the reuse and redesign of public (street) space for the common good. With AKöR, he developed and facilitated exchange formats such as the Scientific Advisory Forum for the municipal mobility transition and the StadtWERKSTATT Xhain pilot program.

He supports the TuneOurBlock project - Transforming Neighbourhoods on a Human Scale as a practice partner and advises Changing Cities e.V. Here he is also responsible for the local coordination of the Klima.Kiez.Gesund project. During his previous career, he worked at the Department of Sustainable Urban Planning at TU Berlin and in the CHORA Conscious City Lab, at the interface of digitalization and participation.