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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Student team members
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 the course “Feminist Geography”.
Fields of interest
- Whuman-environment-technology relations
- Wmobile methods
- WSoutheast Asia and Brasil
- Wall the other exciting topics in this world
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
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 “New Cultural Geography and Beyond”.
Fields of interest
- Wmigration
- Wsustainability transformations
- Wurbanisation
- Wpopulation development
Former Team Members
Ferdinand Brielmair
Student Assistant
Julia Angermann
Student Assistant
Christoph Straganz
PhD Student
Carola Hintz
Student Assistant
Lisa Pichler
Student Assistant
Lukas Emrich
Student Assistant
Veit Badde
Student Assistant
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Research Group Transient Spaces & Societies
Geographisches Institut Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck