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Michael Wittmann

Research Associate
E-Mail: michael.wittmann[at]geographie.uni-freiburg.de
Room: 206

 

Research topics

  • Cultural Economy und Economic Sociology
  • Geographies of Marketization
  • Waste Geographies, Discard Studies

Lecturing and Teaching activities

  • Seminar: Cultures-Identities-Spaces: Current Perspectives of the New Cultural Geography (Winter 23/24)
  • Seminar (master level): Postcolonial perspectives in theory and practice (Winter 22/23)

CV

  • since 12/2023
   Doctoral candidate in the Economic Geography and Sustainable Development working group with a doctoral scholarship from the Stiftung Deutsche Wirtschaft (sdw); dissertation topic: ‘Markets in the Circular Economy: Recycling and Disposal of Construction and Demolition Wastes in Germany’
  • 2022-2023
   Research associate at the chair of „Economic Geography and Sustainable Development“ at the University of Freiburg
  • 2022
   Master thesis: „Exploring the Political Economy and Marketisation of Construction and Demolition Waste in Freiburg”
  • 2019-2022
   Research assistant at the chair of „Economic Geography and Sustainable Development“ at the University of Freiburg
  • 2018-2022
   M.Sc. „Geography of Global Change“ in Freiburg
  • 2014-2018
   B.A. Geography/Physics at the University of Osnabrück