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Current Position

• since 6/2007: senior researcher and project leader at the Department of Human Geography, University of Hamburg / Germany

Previous Positions

• 10/2015-03/2016: Post-doc and senior lecturer at Department of Geography, University of Hildesheim, Germany (deputy position in regard of a maternity leave)
• 4/2015-12/2015: Scientific consultant (core senior member) in regard of the Revised Mekong Delta Regional Plan 2030 & Vision 2050; on behalf of RUA (Research, Urbanism & Architecture / Belgium) and SISP (Southern Institute of Spatial Planning / Vietnam)
• 9/2013: Short-term appointment as guest lecturer at Urban Planning Faculty of Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture
• 4/2013: Guest lecturer at Faculty for Urban Management, National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), Hanoi / Vietnam; short-term appointment funded by DAAD.
• 3/2013: Guest Lecturer at Faculty for Geography, National University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam; short-term appointment funded by DAAD.
• 03/2007-03/2009: Consultant (senior expert) during several missions in the context of the EU-funded Urban Environmental Planning Programme (UEPP-VN) at Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture / Vietnam
• 6/2001-5/2007: Assistant professor at the Department of Geography, Georg-August-University of Goettingen / Germany
• 4/2004: Guest lecturer at Faculty for Geography, National University of Education, Hanoi / Vietnam; short-term appointment funded by DAAD.
• 3/2004: Guest lecturer at Faculty for Geography, National University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam; short-term appointment funded by DAAD.
• 4/1996-5/2001: Junior lecturer at the Department of Geography, Georg-August-University of Goettingen / Germany

Education

• 5/2001 PhD Degree (University of Göttingen)
  Topic of the dissertation „Urban Development of Hanoi – with special consideration of the transition of the 36 Streets Quarter„
• 3/1996 Masters Degree / Magister Artium (Technical University of Aachen)
  Masters Study from 10/1990-3/1996 at the Department of Geography of the Technical University (RWTH)/Aachen: major in Economic Geography, Geography and Economy as minor subjects
  Topic of the master’s thesis „Regional Disparities in the Philippines“
• 4/1989 Secondary School Diploma (Abitur)
  1980-1989 Hegau Secondary School – Singen am Htw.
  top of class of the intensified course on geography (Leistungskurs Erdkunde)
• 1976-1980 Beethoven Primary School – Singen am Htw.

Internships

• 7/1994 at ifo Institute for Economic Research, Department for Japanese Studies, Munich
• 9-10/1993 at Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg