Tabea has been a Professor of Human Geography since 2018, when she founded the Transient Spaces & Societies Research Group. She is a digital, social, and cultural geographer with a particular interest in how the entanglement of digital technologies in everyday lives affects social inclusion and exclusion, social sustainability, and well-being.

Elisabeth is post-doc researcher at our research group. She is specializes in the fields of population geography, spatial planning and regional development. Her research explores how people decide where to live, move, or stay, and how this affects spatial development.

Julia is a postdoctoral researcher. She is interested in human-environment interactions and how digital technologies shape and alter these relationships. Her research explores questions of environmental justice in the fields of inclusive disaster protection on the one hand and AI in conservation on the other hand.

Johannes is a human geographer and works as a research associate in the ‘Enabling Spaces’ project of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). His interests include critical disability studies, biopower dynamics in society and biosensing methods. Through his research, he seeks to understand the biosocial experiences of young people with disabilities in their everyday lives.

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

Yaxin is an urban planner specializing in incorporating green theories and numerical simulations to develop eco-friendly, intelligent, and sustainable urban plans. Her current research primarily focuses on the education inequity of migrant children.

Linda is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in critical military geographies, critical geopolitics, and discourse analysis. Her research examines how weapons technologies are legitimized and justified in societal and political spheres through their discursive, material, and affective mediation.

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.

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.

Marco’s research focuses on social class and socio-ecological transformation. Trained in geographic analysis of risk and vulnerabilities, educational science, and public policy, his research interest includes the identification of enablers for sustainable development. He is currently working as a climate adaptation manager on the city level. His research uses mass housing as a case study to develop a grounded theory on the relations of social class and spatial practices that can contribute to empowerment for socio-ecological transformation.

Vesna is a geographer whose research centers on disability-inclusive disaster risk management in mountain regions. Her regional expertise includes Tyrol (Austria), where she engages with local risk governance structures and community-based approaches to resilience.

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.

Alexander is a social geographer specializing in tourism, migration, and sustainable development, with extensive research and teaching experience in Europe (Austria) and the Asia-Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Pacific Islands). His interdisciplinary work employs qualitative and creative methods to explore (im)mobilities, tourism-migration intersections, microbusinesses, socio-economic transformations, human-environment relations, and digitization.

Katja is a communications scholar focusing on the everyday practices of mobile media use and their ethical and methodological implications for developing new methods.

Lea is an interdisciplinary researcher. Her research sits at the intersection of environmental sociology, agri-food studies, feminist theory, and social movement research.