Visiting Professor

Urban and regional development | Human-environment relations | Peri-urban transformations | Sustainability 

Alexander Follmann (PhD 2015 and Habilitation 2023, University of Cologne, Germany) is an urban and economic geographer working on sustainable urban and regional development in the context of global environmental change and globalisation. His research focuses on 1) peri-urban transformations in the Global South, and 2) smart cities and public participation in Germany.
 

Since August 2024, he is a Visiting Professor at the SRF - Research Unit for Urban and Regional Research.
 

Professional Background

- Since 10/2023: Acting Professor for Geography with a focus on Urban and Regional Research (W2), Institute of Geography, University of Bonn

- Since 08/2023: Visiting Fellow, Research Unit for Urban and Regional Research, Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Vienna (Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franziska Sielker)

- Since 05/2016: Principal Investigator (PI), Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne

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  • Urban and regional development
  • Human-environment relations
  • Peri-urban transformations


Courses at the TU Vienna WS2024:

  • Peri-urban Transformations: Bridging debates from different metropolitan regions in the global South and North

  • Urban and regional development, socio-ecological transformation, sustainability, human-environment relations, participation, peri-urban change, smart cities, agriculture
  • Germany, India, Kenya
  • Qualitative and quantitative methods, remote sensing, discourse analysis

For full list of publications see:

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