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