About

Research and Teaching Areas

• Economic geography: geographies of production and consumption
• Didactics of geography and economics
• Relation of market, society and environment
• Science, Technology, Society (STS) and Actor-network theory (ANT)
• Regional geographies of Southeastern Europe
• Regional development and rural studies

Curriculum Vitae

• Since May 2012: Professor at the Institute of Geography at the University of Graz and Research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig
• 2010: DAAD Short term Visiting Professor at the University of Sofia
• 2009–2012 Project coordinator at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde Leipzig
• 2008-2009 Visiting  Professor for Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
• 2005–2008 Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig
• 2003–2004 Research Associate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 2003 PhD in Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 1999 Research Associate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the Institute for Ecological Economics in Berlin
• Until 1998 Studies of geography, economics and geography didactics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Research Projects

• „FoReSt- Forschungsvernetzung zur Regionalentwicklung in der Steiermark“ (granted by the Government of the Federal District of Styria); 09/2019 - 08/2022
• „Rurbane Nahrungswelten“ (granted by the Government of the Federal District of Styria); 01/2019 - 10/2021
• „Raumteilen: Shared spaces of work, housing and public spaces in the example of the City of Graz“ (granted by the Styrian Provincial Government, Department of Science and Research); 09/2018 – 03/2021
• "(Un-)Knowing Food: Herkunft, (Un-)Sicherheit, und die Moral des Essens am Beispiel von Fleischprodukten in der Steiermark", 2014-2016 (granted by the Government of the Federal District of Styria for the project "Polaritäten der Wissensgesellschaft" under the heading "Zunahme des Nicht-Wissens")
• "Foodscapes: Access to Food – Excess of Food; EU-LEADER-Programm" (Government of Styria & LEADER-Regions Almenland and Vulkanland); 04/2013-11/2014
• "Collaborative Cartography as a „Cultural Technology“ in Education: Geography at School Meets Arts and Urban Planning"; Regional Centre of Geography Didactics; 06/2013-12/2014
• "Brands, Spaces and Dreams in Post-Socialist Europe: Geographies of production and consumption, exemplified by fashion brands and markets in Bulgaria", German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft),02/2010–03/2013
• "Eco-Network Bulgaria - Environmental protection with the aid of civil society networking and communication in the problematic areas of nature conservation, pollutant emissions and waste", Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, 03/2011–08/2012