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PD Dr. Anna Growe

Private lecture
E-Mail: anna.growe[at]geographie.uni-freiburg.de

 

Research topics

  • Socio-economic changes in urban systems and metropolitan areas
  • Places of knowledge exchange and innovation development
  • Governance in metropolitan regions
  • Sustainable spatial development

Awards

  • 2021 Award Most Read Article of the journal “Standort. Zeitschrift für angewandte Geographie“ for the article " Co-working spaces as meeting places - impulses for neighbourhood development?" (together with Sebastian Henn and Christine Scheffer)
  • 2015 Jim Lewis Prize of the journal European Urban and Regional Studies for the most innovative paper published in the journal in the previous year. Together with John Harrison.
  • 2012 Dissertation Prize of the Faculty of Spatial Planning with the dissertation "Nodes in Networks of Knowledge-Intensive Services. An empirical analysis of the polycentric German urban system.
  • 2012 Research Prize of the Faculty of Spatial Planning for the project "The labour divided system of German Metropolitan Regions. Analysis of Metropolitan Functions in the German Urban System", funded by the German Research Foundation.
  • 2007 Werner Ernst Prize (3rd prize) for the contribution "Metropolitan regions as knowledge brokers promoting territorial cohesion in a knowledge-based economy) (together with Sabine von Löwis).

Vita

  • since 10/2022
   Private Lecturer at the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
  • 10/2015 – 09/2022
   Junior Professor for Regional Governance at the Department of Geography, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.
  • 04/2013 – 09/2015
   Research Assistant at the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
  • 06/2012 – 03/2013
   Scholarship holder (Post-Doc) at the Institute of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
  • 04/2009 – 05/2012
   Research assistant at the Institute for Spatial Planning (IRPUD), TU Dortmund University.
  • 01/2007 – 03/2010
   Research assistant at the Department of Spatial Planning and Regional Planning, Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University.