• Strategies and instruments for sustainable urban development
• Border cities
• Quality of life in cities and regions
• Inter-municipal and cross-border cooperation, urban and regional governance

Since July 2016

Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ecological and Revitalizing Urban Transformation (IZS) in Görlitz and professor at the International Institute (IHI) Zittau, Central Academic Unit of TU Dresden

2015–2016

Senior researcher at the IOER, Department Strategic Issues and Perspectives

2010–2014

Interim professor for Spatial Planning at Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences

2009–2012

Visiting professor and interim professor at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning

2007–2015

Freelance consultant for European Urban and Regional Development

2001–2010

Researcher at the IOER

2008–2009

Lecturer at Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences

2007–2008

Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Faculty of Architecture

 

2008

Technische Universität Dortmund, doctorate, Dr.-Ing. Spatial Planning

1994 – 2001

Technische Universität Dortmund, diploma degree, Spatial Planning
John-Moores University Liverpool
University of Warsaw

• External reviewer for DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
• External reviewer for Robert Bosch Stiftung (funding area: science)
• External reviewer for the European Commission (HORIZON 2020)
• External reviewer for Slovenian Research Agency - ARRS
• Member of the Graduate Academy of Technische Universität Dresden
• Member of the Leibniz Academy of Spatial Research and Planning – ARL (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt/Thüringen)
• Peer reviewer for various scientific journals (disP – The Planning Review, European Planning Studies, Journal of Borderland Studies, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, Regional Studies

Module Ecological and Revitalizing Urban Transformation (Master course Spatial Development and Natural Resources, UWMRN 2.6)

• Pyschny, Andreas / Wilde, Erik / Knippschild, Robert (2012): Auf dem Weg zur Stadtregion? Einordnung des Fallbeispiels der interkommunalen Gewerbeflächenentwicklung in der Region Halle/Leipzig in die Debatte um Regional Governance. In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 6/2012, p. 531-544.
• Knippschild, Robert / Wiechmann, Thorsten (2012): Supraregional Partnerships in Large Cross-Border Areas – Towards a new category of space in Europe? In: Planning Practice and Research, Vol. 27, No. 3., p. 297-314.
• Knippschild, Robert (2011): With 'Regional Territorial Agendas' towards territorial cohesion? The emergence of supra-regional coalitions in Europe and their future role in Cohesion Policy. In: Studies in Agricultural Economics, volume 113, number 2., p. 133-137.
• Knippschild, Robert (2011): Cross-border Spatial Planning: Understanding, Designing and Managing Cooperation Processes in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland. In: European Planning Studies 19(04), p. 629-645.