Vita

2019 – present
Director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) and Chair of Spatial Development and Transformation, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)

2017 – 2019:
Associate Professor, Urban Transformations Lab (UTL), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul/Suwon (South Korea)

2013 – 2017
Associate Professor, Urban Sustainability Transitions Lab (USTL), Yonsei University, Seoul (South Korea)

2012
Head of research area “Strategic issues and perspectives” at Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden

Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre

I am working on the dynamics of urban and regional change and the strategies and approaches for steering such change towards sustainability. My focus is on innovations in urban and regional governance, policy, planning and design that enable and guide system transitions. This entails a concern for diverse socio-technical and social-ecological systems converging in human settlements, and the internal and external factors driving or inhibiting their transformation across spatial scales.

Publikationen (mit Bezug zu TUDiSC)

Torrens, J., Westman, L., Wolfram, M., Broto, V.C., Barnes, J., Egermann, M., Ehnert, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Fratini, C.F., Håkansson, I., Hölscher, K., Huang, P., Raven, R., Sattlegger, A., Schmidt-Thomé, K., Smeds, E., Vogel, N., Wangel, J., von Wirth, T., (2021): Advancing urban transitions and transformations research. Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. S2210422421001003.

Wolfram, M., Borgström, S., Farrelly, M., (2019): Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice. Special Issue guest-editorial of: AMBIO, 48 (5), 437-448, doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01169-y.

Wolfram, M. (2018): Learning urban energy governance for system innovation: An assessment of transformative capacity development in three South Korean cities. In: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21(1) 30-45, doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2018.1512051.

Wolfram, M. (2018) Cities shaping grassroots niches for sustainability transitions: Conceptual reflections and an exploratory case study. In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 173, 11-23, doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.08.044.

Wolfram, M., Frantzeskaki, N. and Maschmeyer, S. (2017): Cities, systems and sustainability: Status and perspectives for urban transformation research. In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 18-25. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.014.

Wolfram, M. (2015): Conceptualizing urban transformative capacity: A framework for research and policy. In: Cities. 51 (Current Research on Cities), 121-130.  doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.011.