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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, cities, and societies. She is a geographer whose work is characterised by an interdisciplinary outreach, and a focus on cross-sectional topics – especially urbanisation, mobilities, and digitisation 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. 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
Julia Angermann
Student Assistant
Jacqueline Kowalski
Student Assistant
Veit Badde
Student Assistant
Andrea Markl
Student Assistant
Lukas Emrich
Student Assistant
Lisa Pichler
Student Assistant
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Research Group Transient Spaces & Societies
Geographisches Institut Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck