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This picture shows the members of the research group on the top of the a building of the University of Innsbruck. The background shows a mountain range. The team members on the picture from left to right, back row, are: Jan Misera, Elisabeth Gruber, Belinda Mahlknecht, Anna Gruber, Jacqueline Kowalski, Huiqiao Yuan, Johannes Melchert. In the front row from left to right are: Christoph, Schimmel, Tabea Bork-Hüffer and Andrea Markl.<br />

Our Team

Team Members

Tabea Bork-Hüffer

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.

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Elisabeth Gruber

Post-doc Researcher

Elisabeth is post-doc researcher at our research group. She specializes in the fields of population geography, spatial planning and regional development.

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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.

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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.

Andrea Markl

PhD Candidate, Researcher

Andrea is researching on the everyday practices of young people in socio-material-technological spaces, putting her main emphasis on negotiations of difference and possible related experiences of violence and exclusion.

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Johannes Melchert

PhD Candidate, Researcher

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”.

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Jan Misera

PhD Candidate, Researcher

Jan is a geographer focusing his current research on the perception of urban public spaces. In doing so he experiments methodologically with biosensing technologies such as mobile eye-tracking.

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Jacqueline Kowalski

PhD Candidate, Researcher

Jacqueline supports the DigitAS-project in the research on technology-human relations and digital geographies. Furthermore, she works as tutor for the course “Feminist Geography”.

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Huiqiao Yuan

PhD Candidate, Researcher

Huiqiao completed her postgraduate studies at The University of Sydney in Media Practice. In her PhD research, she expects to provide insights into the study of adaptation and receptivity of marginalized Chinese immigrants in Asia and Asian America. Her main interest focuses on immigration, gender, social media and transnational families as well as their interaction.

Associated and Visiting Researchers

Simon A. Bunchuay-Peth

Associated Lecturer

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.

Katja Kaufmann

Associated 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.

Hooshmand Alizadeh

Associated Researcher

Hooshmand is a qualified planner who focuses on the relationship between urban planning and environmental sustainability, with a particular emphasis on empowering marginalized communities in urban areas.

Student team members

Anna Gruber

Student Assistant

E-MailAnna.Gruber@uibk.ac.at

Anna supports the working group with analyzing data and conducting literature research on various topics. Furthermore, she works as tutor for our courses “Population and Social Geography” and “Society-Technology-Environment-Relationships”.

Fields of interest

Wmigration
Wspatial planning
Wurbanisation
Wregional development

Lisa Schmidhofer

Student Assistant

E-MailLisa.Schmidhofer@student.uibk.ac.at

Lisa studies her Master’s in geography and works as a student assistant at our research group, in which she supports the research project BeYOND.

Fields of interest

Wsustainable urban development
Wurban space
Whuman-environmental relations
Wvulnerability/ resilience
Wrisk analysis and governance

Hans Renauld

Student Assistant

E-MailHans.Renauld@student.uibk.ac.at

Hans is supporting the working group at the Enabling Space project after completing his bachelor’s degree in Innsbruck. His main tasks include collecting and analyzing data using mobile methods. Together with students of the ENABLING Spaces master’s program, he is developing an interactive map from this data.