Christoph Woiwode, PhD

• sustainable landuse/peri-/urbanisation
• climate change/disaster risk adaptation/mitigation
• urban planning and governance
• development studies
• socio-cultural transformation to sustainability
• transdisciplinarity
• India/South Asia

Since 2024

Senior researcher at Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development

2019-2024

Visiting Professor at Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

2017-2019

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Bath Spa University, United Kingdom

2013-2016

Visiting Professor at Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

2008-2013

Lecturer, International Spatial Planning Centre, Faculty of Spatial Planning TU Dortmund University

2007-2008

Independent Consultant, New Delhi

2005-2007

Integrated expert at Provincial Planning Secretariat, Northeast Provincial Council, Sri Lanka; seconded by Centre for International Migration (CIM)/ German International Development Agency (GIZ)

 

2001-2007

PhD in Planning Studies, Development Planning Unit, University College London, London University

1995-2001

M.A. Social Anthropology, FU Berlin

1994-2000

Dipl.-Ing. Urban and Regional Planning, TU Berlin

 

URBNANCE - Urban human-nature resonance for sustainability transformation

List of selected projects before IOER

Member, International Water Association (IWA)
Member, Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South (N-AERUS)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK

Ambio, Sustainability Science, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Ecosystems and People, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Challenges, Frontiers in Education, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education

Member of Editorial Review Board ‘Frontiers in Education’

Best Teaching Award in the SPRING Master Programm, winterterm 2011/12, Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund

2001-2005  DAAD Doctoral Scholarship

List of selected publications before IOER (PDF)