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Our Team
Team Members
Tabea Bork-Hüffer
Full Professor, Research Group Leader
Tabea works on how practices and power relations shape spaces and societies. She is a geographer whose work is characterised by an interdisciplinary outreach, and a focus on cross-sectional topics – especially digitisation, mobilities, and urbanisation as well as their interrelations.
Katja Kaufmann
Post-Doc, Researcher
Katja is a communications scholar focusing on the everyday practices of mobile media use and their ethical and methodological implications for developing new methods.
Belinda Mahlknecht
PhD Candidate, Researcher
Belinda has completed her Teachers Training diploma in Geography and History at the University of Innsbruck where she is currently doing her PhD. Belinda’s research focuses on pupils and their practices at the institution school as well as in the digital space, especially in the context of (cyber-)bullying.
Simon A. Bunchuay-Peth
Post-Doc, Researcher
Simon is a human geographer by traning focusing on social geography in the global south. He studied development geography, anthropology and development economics, at the University of Bonn and has over ten years research experience on human development, climate change adaptation, human mobility and migration.
Christoph Schimmel
PhD Candidate, Researcher
Christoph is a geographer focussing his current research on the system of academic knowledge production and the publishing industry with a detailed perspective on the Open Access transition.
Christoph Straganz
PhD Candidate, Researcher
Christoph is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck researching pupils and their practices at the institution school as well as in the digital space.
Student team members
Ferdinand Brielmair
Student Assistant
E-MailFerdinand.Brielmair@uibk.ac.at
Ferdinand is collaborating on the COV-identities project with a focus on distance education during the pandemic, as well as the potential redesign of distance and face-to-face education during the ongoing pandemic and in post-pandemic futures.
Fields of interest
- Wdistance learning
- Weducation
- Wdigitisation
Jacqueline Kowalski
Student Assistant
E-MailJacqueline.Kowalski@uibk.ac.at
Jacqueline supports the DigitAS project in the research on technology-human relations and digital geographies. Furthermore, she works as tutor for our courses “New Cultural Geography and Beyond” and “Population and Social Geography”.
Fields of interest
- Whuman-environment-technology relations
- Wmobile methods
- WSoutheast Asia and Brasil
- Wall the other exciting topics in this world
Andrea Markl
Student Assistant
E-MailAndrea.Markl@uibk.ac.at
Andrea is supporting our team by doing literature research focusing on topics associated with digitisation and societal change. Furthermore, she is involved in the development of new project proposals and publications.
Publications
Bork-Hüffer, T., Mahlknecht, B., & Markl, A. (in print): Kollektivität in und durch cON/FFlating spaces: 8 Thesen zu Verschränkungen, multiplen Historizitäten und Intra-Aktionen in sozio-materiell-technologischen (Alltags-)Räumen. In: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaften.
Fields of interest
- Wdigitisation
- Wintersection of online and offline spaces
- WcON/FFlating spaces
Johannes Melchert
Student Assistant
E-Mailjohannes.melchert@student.uibk.ac.at
Johannes supports the DigitAS-project in the research on digital spatial perception and augmented realities. Additionally, he works as tutor for the module “Man and Environment”
Fields of interest
- Wsustainable urban development
- Wurban space
- Whuman-environmental relations
- Wvulnerability/ resilience
- Wrisk analysis and governance
Jan Misera
Student Assistant
E-MailJan.Misera@student.uibk.ac.at
Jan supports the DigitAS-project in the research on digital spatial perception and augmented realities, mainly by analyzing quantitative data and conducting literature research.
Fields of interest
- Wmigration
- Wdigitisation
- Wgovernance
- Wsustainability transformations
- Whuman development
Lisa Pichler
Student Assistant
E-MailLisa.Pichler@uibk.ac.at
Lisa is collaborating mainly in the DigitAS-project by doing literature research, project management and organizing offline and online events (e.g. conferences).
Fields of interest
- Wsustainability & climate change education
- Wdigitalisation
- Wteaching methodology in geography
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Research Group Transient Spaces & Societies
Geographisches Institut Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
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