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"

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

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"

Vivek Krishnan, M.Sc. Urban Agglomerations
"From Placemaking to Place-as-a-Service: leveraging user generated hyperlocal content to enhance decision support, spatial intelligence, and resilience through sustainable, transformative user experiences"

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"

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"

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
"Resource Nexus perspectives on Healthy Urban Human-Nature Partnerships and their Role in Sustainability Transformation"

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?"

William Ying, M.Sc. Integrated Natural Resource Management
"Conceptualizing a community-supported economy (CSE): amplifying community-supported entrepreneurship (CSX) in Germany"