| Ongoing projects (First supervisor) | |
|---|---|
| Romeo Dipura, MPhil | Water Infrastructures in South Africa between drought and flooding (Joint degree with the University Utrecht) |
| Denis Haag, MA | |
| Kurt Poeschl, MA, MA, MA | Contested Urban Constructions: Valparaíso’s Ascensores as Cultural Heritage and Critical Infrastructures |
| Andrea Protschky, M.Sc. | Improvising Infrastructure: Infrastructure practices and social in- and exclusions of unhoused persons in Berlin. |
| Eline Punt, M.Sc. | Seaports as nested infrastructure systems: Governing risks at the Port of Rotterdam (Joint degree with the University Utrecht) |
| Maria Stadler, MA | Fraunhofer Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI) Karlsruhe: Urban spaces in transition(s) – An explorative analysis of new ways of doing, thinking, organising urban spaces in the course of sustainability transitions |
| Ongoing projects (Second supervision) | |
| Madline Fischer, 1. StEx | The Warning of Natural Hazards. Critical warning infrastructures in 20th century in Germany (in German, TU Darmstadt) |
| Claus Müller, Dipl.-Vw., MA | The Impact of Tourist Demand on the Social and Commercial Infrastructure of Residential Neighbourhoods in Berlin (in German, TU Berlin) |
| Leonie Plänkers, Dipl.-Ing. | Learning from New old Towns – Urban Reconstructions and its Effects (in German, TU Darmstadt) |
| Michèle Sauer, MA | Functional Crises through Regulation. Criticality and Transformation of network-attached Infrastructures in the Pandemic (in German, TU Darmstadt) |
| Jona Schwerer, MA | The publicness of spaces – On the social construction of public spaces (TU Berlin) |
| Completed Ph.D. supervisions (first supervisor) | |
| Allegra Baumann, MA | From the Ships to the City. A Rhythm Analysis of Cruise Tourism Circulation on the Transport Infrastructure in Dubrovnik (in German, TU Darmstadt) |
| Katharina Knaus, MA | Selling the Short-term Home. A Study on the Practices of Hosting on Airbnb in New York City (TU Berlin) |
| Georg Krajewsky, MA | The Negotiation of Collective Memories of Colonialism in Hamburg. An Investigation of Power Relations in the Urban Reappraisal Process Round Table ‘Colonial Heritage’” (in German, TU Darmstadt) |
| Friederike Landau, MA | Artistic Articulations in Cultural Policy-Making. The Constitution of Political Actors between Politics and the Political (TU Darmstadt) |
| Henning Mohr, MA | Cultural Interventions in Urban Spaces – The Influence of Artistic Processes on Social Change (in German, TU Berlin) |
| Ariane Sept, Dipl.-Ing. | Deceleration in Small and Medium-sized Cities. Cittaslow as Social Innovation in Urban Development (in German, TU Berlin) |
| Anna Steigemann, MA | Local Businesses and Social Cohesion in Metropolitan Neighborhoods (TU Berlin) |
| Completed Ph.D. supervisions (second supervisor) | |
| Eveline Althaus, MA | Neighbourhoods in the Socio-spatial Environment of big Housing Blocks from the 1960s to the 1980s (in German, ETH Zürich) |
| Madalena Corte-Real, MA | Shaping the Urban Space. The Revitalization of the Moorish Quarter in Lisbon, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) |
| Johanna Hoerning, Dipl.-Soz. | The Megacity as a Concept and Reality. The Spatial, Political and Social Configuration of Big Cities in Brazil (in German, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) |
| Laura McAleese, MA | The Mediation of Contemporary Literature at Selected British Literary Festivals (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) |
| Anna Laura Raschke, Dipl.-Soz.. | The Individual and the Others. Intrinsic logic of cities based on local conventions and economic practices of hairdressing (in German, TU Berlin) |
| Christian Rosen, Dipl.-Soz. | The Political City. Berlin, Madrid and the Political Field (in German, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) |
| Referee in Ph.D. committees (written review) | |
| Christian Ernsten, MA | Renaissance and Revenants in an Emerging Global City: Discourses of Heritage and Urban Design in Cape Town’s District One and District Six (University of Cape Town) |
| Andreas Huck, MSc | Enhancing Urban and Infrastructure Resilience. An International Perspective (Utrecht University) |
| Christoph Sommer, Dipl.-Geogr. | Seeing Like a Tourist City. Governance Techniques for (De-)Problematizing Conflicts around Urban Tourism – Berlin as a Case Study (in German, Humboldt University Berlin) |
| Melis Oguz Sürel, MA | Increasing the Urban Mobility of Migrant Women: Transferring Experience from Berlin to Istanbul. A Pilot Study in Kurfali, Kartal (Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi) |
In addition to regular supervision in the form of individual discussions, there are also a number of internal exchange formats that serve to promote collegial, professional and interdisciplinary networking. These include:
- The AG Interdisciplinary Urban Research lecture series
- The Young Researchers Network Urban Studies (NUR) for doctoral students and post-docs, conducted in English and featuring associated formats, such as the DataLab and a reading group. Contact persons: Dr. Claudia Ba and Denis Haag, M.A.
- Research colloquium for doctoral candidates with Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank
- The Research Discussion Series for doctoral students and post-docs in English, organized by Dr. Dhara Patel
- A weekly Team Lunch at the Department of Urban and Spatial Sociology
