Short profile

We are versatile - in teaching as well as in research.

Our teaching activities currently cover the following areas:

• Economic Geography
• Population geography
• Social change
• Demographic change
• Economic structural change
• Integrative geographic concepts
• quantitative and qualitative social science and geographic research methods
• Geographic project work
• Geographical excursions

Current focal points of interest in our scientific work are:

• Cultural and social geography
• Political geography
• Border regime research
• Urban transformation processes
• International urbanization
• Infrastructures
• Relational space theory and territorialization
• Cultural difference and everyday life
• Social inequality
• Theory of social practices
• Population development, demographic change
• Urban and housing market research