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Prof. Dr. Annika Mattissek

Chair of Economic Geography and Sustainable Development
E-Mail: annika.mattissek[at]geographie.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: ++49(0)761 203-3565
Room: 107

 

Research topics

  • Political Geography
  • Human-Environment Geography
  • Processes of neoliberalization and commodification
  • Theories and methods of discourse analysis
  • Regional focus: Southeast Asia

Lecturing and teaching activities

  • Lectures and seminars on: political geography, political ecology, human-environment relations, economic Geography, methods of human geography, global change
  • Field trips and study tours: Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos), Sicily, Berlin, Dresden

Advisory roles and memberships

  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS)
  • Editorial board member: Local Environment-International Journal of sustainability and justice
  • Speaker of the Political Geography Specialty Group within the VDGH (AK Politische Geographie)
  • Co-editor Forum Politische Geographie
  • Member of the interdisciplinary network of discourse analysis (DiskursNetz)

Vita

  • since 04/2015
    Professor of Economic Geography and Sustainable Development (W3), Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
  • 11/2014-3/2015
    Professor of Economic and Social Geography (W3), Institute of Geography, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, TU Dresden
  • 10/2012-10/2014
    Interim professor for Economic and Social Geography, TU Dresden
  • 03/2009-10/2014
    Lecturer and researcher at the University of Heidelberg, Department of Geography and scholarship holder of the „Margarete von Wrangell-Habilitationsprogramms für Frauen“ of the Federal State Baden-Württemberg and the European Social Fund (ESF)
  • 02-03/2009
    DAAD short time guest lecture, Khon Kaen University, Northeast-Thailand
  • 06/2008
    Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (thesis: „Die neoliberale Stadt“, transcript 2008)
  • 03/2004-02/2009
    Lecturer and researcher at the University of Heidelberg, Department of Geography
  • 10/2004-02/2005
    Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) at the Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po Paris) in Nancy
  • 09/2003-02/2004
    Research Assistant at the University of Münster, Department of Geography
  • 10/2002-08/2003
    Lecturer and researcher at the University of Heidelberg, Department of Geography
  • 08/2002
    Diploma in Geography, University of Heidelberg
  • 1998-1999
    Study abroad, McMaster University, Hamilton/Ontario, Canada
  • 1994-2002
    Undergraduate and graduate studies in geography, mathematics and economics, University of Heidelberg