Doctoral Candidates and their Dissertations

Rana Abdelkader, M.Sc. Architecture and Urban Design
"University campus as a microcosm of the city: Introducing 'Healthy Space Index (HSI)' for a healthier built environment"

Sai Varsha Akavarapu, M.Sc. Urban Ecological Planning
"Navigating sustainable urban futures in India: Deciphering the dynamics between urban institutional capacities and participatory futures discourses"

Anna Baatz, M.Sc. Soziale Ökonomik
"Learning towards sustainability transitions: re-embedding of everyday practices"

Katharina Bullinger, M.Sc. BWL
"Social Innovation's contribution to implement Circular Economy in Built Environment"

Sarah Deutscher, M.A. Business Ethics and Responsible Management
"Legitimizing the governance of urban sustainability transitions"

Mariam Diagayété, MSc Umweltwissenschaften
"How does an active, long-term regional open space policy emerge? Analysis of political-planning processes using the Multiple Stream Framework"

Denise Ehrhardt, M.Sc. Urbanistik
"Innenentwicklungspotenzial Baulücke: Eine empirische Untersuchung von räumlichen Mustern und Einflussfaktoren auf die Aktivierung von Baulücken in NRW von 2011-2021"

Lisa Eichler, M.Sc. Geoinformatik und Management
"Spatial Habitat Modelling supporting Environmental Risk Assessment for Antimicrobial Resistant Microorganisms - the vector Musca domestica"

Claire Gallacher, M.Sc. Environmental Governance (DLGS 2021)
"Hyperlocal mapping of urban heat islands, vulnerability and risk; closing the science-policy gap and linking participatory planning to multi-level governance"

Ritu George Kaliaden, M.Sc. International Cooperation and Urban Development
"Place attachment among skilled international migrants in historic peripheral cities: a case study of Görlitz, Germany"

Lamiaa Ghoz, Masters in Architectural Engineering
"The role of social innovation in supporting the transition of housing cooperative communities to a circular economy"

Astrid Gläsel, Master Politikwissenschaften
Transformationspotential und sozial-ökologische Auswirkungen von Agrarökologie-Projekten im urbanen und peri-urbanen Raum in Deutschland

Vera Götze, M.Sc. Spatial Planning
"Who pays the price? Comparing densification patterns in Utrecht and Bern"

Oliver Harig, Dipl.-Forstw., M.Sc. Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcenmanagement
"Entwicklung eines Verfahrens zur automatisierten Kategorisierung und Abgrenzung von Siedlungen für die Raumwissenschaften"

Philip Harms, M.Sc. Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcen
"Responsive urban planning for human-nature partnership - Exploring collective human-nature resonance"

Mabel Killinger, M.Sc. Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcen
"Reconnecting with the Food We Eat. Urban Human Food-Resonance for Sustainable Food Consumption Patterns"

Caspar Kleiner, M.A. Architektur
"Form Follows Policy. Auswirkungen nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Bodenpolitiken auf die urbane Form nachvollziehen und verstehen"

Annica Kögler, M.Sc. Raumentwicklung und Naturressourcen-management
"Co-production in Transition Management: An approach for analysing transformative outcomes"

Daniel Kretzschmar, Dipl.-Geograph
"Analyse von Einflussfaktoren zur Abschätzung der Bestandsentwicklung in der Nutzungsart Nichtwohngebäude"

Donia Mahabadi, M.Sc. Economics und Institutions
"Investigation of approaches to enhance ambition and compliance under the Paris Agreement"

Linda Maiwald, M.Sc. Sustainable Development
"Transformative capacities of peripheral places in low-carbon transitions"

Sophie Meier, M.Sc. International Environmental Studies
"Assessment of Wild Bee Habitats from Landscape Features"

Susanne Müller, M.A. Urbane Geographien - Humangeographie
"Rituelle Wiederverbindung durch urbane Mensch-Natur-Resonanz. Spiritualität als relationaler Ansatz der Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften"

Markus Münzinger, M.Sc. Geoinformatik
"Integrating spatially explicit urban tree models in environmental analysis"

Nathan Namatama, Master of Regional Development Planning and Management
"Transforming Landscape for resilience and development beyond 2024: a case of Kafue and Barotse basin"

Subhashree Nath, M.Sc. Integrated Urban Development & Design (DLGS 2021)
"Community-based Adaptation of Heat-resilience in Informal Settlements: Application of Parametric Urban Model in Informing Strategy Adaptation"

Daniel Peter, M.A. Soziologie
"Disruptive Agency Dynamics in Urban Sustainability Transformations – A comparative study of outsider relations in three urban mobility systems in Germany"

Denis Reiter, M.Sc. Geoinformationstechnologien
"Using GeoAI to overcome limitations of census surveys: Towards a large-scale synthetic population dataset based on available building information"

Theodor Rieche, M.Eng. Geoinformatik/Management
"Linking Survey and Spatial Data in the context of Mobility Turnaround"

Lasare Samartzidis, M.Sc. Economics
"Regional Sustainable Development – A complexity economics analysis"

Tieza Mica Santos, M.Sc. Environmental Sciences and Policy (DLGS 2020)
"Navigating Southeast Asian urban water systems in transformation: A social-ecological-technological systems analysis of Klang Valley, Malaysia case study"

Ulrich Schumacher, Dipl.-Ing. oec.
"Räumliche Analyse urbaner Strukturen mit offenen Geodaten in Europa"

Raghid Shehayeb, M.Sc. Integrated Water Resources Management (DLGS 2021)
"Decision Making Support based on an Integrated Urban Heat and Drought Assessment Framework"

Rayyan Sulieman, M.Sc. Integrated water Resources Management
"Healthy human-nature partnerships"

Benedikt Taiber, M.Sc. Landschaftsarchitektur
"Digitale Planungsprozesse und Standardisierung der kommunalen Landschaftsplanung für das Vorhaben XPlanung: Maßnahmen, Methoden und Modelle"

Md Imtiaz Uddin, M.Sc. Cartography; M.Sc. Geography and Environmental Studies
"Spatial Lens on Land use System for Emerging Renewable Energy Infrastructure: Germany and Bangladesh"

Varsami Zafeiriou, M.Sc. Advanced Studies in Spatial Planning
"Disaster (risk) management in spatial planning: a wicked problem for resilience?"

Ning Zhang, Master Management Science and Engineering
"Circular economy in built environment focusing on technical innovation"