About

Focus areas in research and teaching

• Economic geography: geographies of goods, production and consumption
• Relationship between market, society and environment
• More-than-human geographies; Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Science, Technology, Society (STS)
• Agro-Food Studies; Food Geographies
• Regional geographies of Europe (especially in Southeast Europe)
• Regional development and rural areas
• Sharing Economies, Co-Working
• Geography and Economy Education

Committee roles at the University of Graz

• Member of the Senate (since 2017)
• Member of the Faculty Committee of the URBI Faculty (since 2012)
• Deputy Head of the Doctoral School of Geography (since 2017)
• Member of the curricula committees "Geography" (2012-22) "Doctoral Programme Didactics" (2013-2022), "Inter-American Studies" (since 2016)
• Member of numerous appointment committees, selection committees and habilitation committees
• Member of the Working Group on Equal Opportunities (2016-22) 
• Chair of the Advisory Board of the URBI Faculty (since 2014)
• Ombudsperson of the Doctoral Academy (since 2022)
• Head of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Research (2017-19)
• Deputy Head of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Research (2015-17)
• Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Social Transformation (RCE) (since 2018)
• Member of the Institute Committee (since 2012)

Service in scientific associations

• Chair of the Association of Austrian Scientific Geography ("Geographieverband" or "geographieverband.at")
• Full member of the German Academy for Regional Studies (DAL)
• Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Southeast European Studies
• Co-editor of the journal "Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde"
• Scientific Advisory Board of the book series "Sozialgeographische Bibliothek"
• Scientific Advisory Board of the book series "Socio-Economic Education and Science" (Springer VS)
• Membership and activities in several working groups of the Association of Geography at German-speaking universities and research institutions (VGDH)

Reviewer activities

• Reviewer for research funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH); Leibniz Association; Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, e.g. in the programme "Social-Ecological Research"); Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Alto Adige;
• Comparative reports for appointment procedures and evaluation procedures at several German and Austrian universities;
• Reviewer for journals and book series (alphabetical): Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde; disP – The Planning Review; Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Erdkunde; Geographica Helvetica; Geographische Zeitschrift; Europa Regional; GW-Unterricht; Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft (MÖGG); ÖGA-Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie; Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie; Routledge Series: Geography and Tourism; Social Geography; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie