green space development and urban design for climate change adaptation
approaches and instruments of urban and green space planning
green space planning in shrinking cities
urban biodiversity
brownfield development
Professional Experience
Project Leader at Interdisciplinary Centre for Transformative Urban Regeneration (IZS), since 1 July 2016
Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Transformative Urban Regeneration, a joint research institution of TU Dresden and IOER in Görlitz
Research Associate at IOER, since 2008
Doctoral fellowship of German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU) and Ph.D. Student at IOER, 2005 - 2007
Research Associate at IOER, 2003 - 2004
Academic Training
Doctoral Degree at Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Architecture, Institute for Landscape Architecture, 2009 ("Green Spaces in Shrinking Cities: Opportunities and Limitations of Green Space Planning in the Process of Urban Restructuring"; sponsored by the Scholarship Programme of the German Federal Environmental Foundation)
Diplom in Landscape Architecture, Technische Universität Dresden, 2003
Current Projects
15minESTATES - Co-creating Spatial Strategies for Just and Sustainable Mobility in Large-Scale Housing Estates
StadtumMig II – From urban restructuring quarters to immigration neighbourhoods? New perspectives for peripheral industrial housing estates; Sub-Project B: Public space
TRUST – Transfer of Urban Sustainability Transition Knowledge: Towards Climate-Neutral Cities 2030 - The City of Görlitz as a Pilot
StadtumMig - From urban restructuring quarters to immigration neighbourhoods? New perspectives for peripheral industrial housing estates; Part: Planning and Infrastructure
TRANS-URBAN-EU-CHINA - Transition towards urban sustainability through socially integrative cities in the EU and China
Simulation game: "Adjustment of peripheral settlement structures" (MORO study)
Green City Lab - Compact City in the Ecological Network
REGKLAM - Climate Change: The Model Region Dresden Adapts
Urban Green Space/Climate Change - Even warmer, even drier? Urban green space and structures of open space under climate change
B-Team - Brownfield Policy Improvement Task Force
The Potential of Brownfields - Instruments to exploit the potential of brownfields for nature protection and the development of green spaces in urban areas
Teaching
Lecturer at TU Dresden, master programme Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management Master
Publications (IOER)
The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development is jointly funded by the federal government and the federal states.
This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.