Prof. Dr. Martina Artmann

Head of the Leibniz-Junior Research Group: Urban human-nature resonance for sustainability transformation (URBNANCE)

Dr. rer. nat. Martina Artmann — Photo: A. Pohl/IÖR-Media

M.Artmannioer@ioer.de

Research Interests

Systemic solutions for sustainable urban development
Urban ecosystem services and green infrastructure
Urban human-nature interactions
Urban agriculture and edible cities
Urban deep ecology

Professional Experience

Since 2024: Research professorship "Green Infrastructure", University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
Since 2021: Head of Research Group Urban Human-Nature Resonance (IOER)
2015-2021: Postdoc researcher, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
06/2010 – 06/2015: Researcher at the Research Group Urban and Landscape Ecology, University Salzburg, Austria

Education

01/2012 – 01/2015: Doctoral studies. University Salzburg, Department Geography and Geology, Austria & Bavarian Academy for Nature Protection and Rural Conservation (ANL), Laufen, Germany; Dissertation topic: "Efficient urban soil sealing management. A system application for analyzing and assessing responses, strategies and targets towards sustainable development." Funded by the German Environmental Foundation (DBU)
(www.dbu.de/stipendien_20011/149_db.html)
Degree: Dr. rer. nat;
10/2007 – 03/2010: Master programme: Landscape, Regional and Urban Management. University Salzburg, Austria (specialization: international development, regional management and city marketing)
Degree: Master of science, MSc
10/2003 – 02/2007: Bachelor programme: Agricultural Science. University Hohenheim, Germany (specification: economics and social sciences of agriculture)
Degree: Bachelor of science, BSc

Projects

URBNANCE - Urban human-nature resonance for sustainability transformation (Leibniz-Junior Research Group, duration: 2020 – 2025)

Future Town Dresden, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), (Duration: 2019-2021)

meinGrün - Information and navigation to urban green spaces in cities, funded by German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), (Duration: 2018-2021)

Projects funded by the German Research Foundation DFG (as applicant):
Edible Cities - Assessing urban greening strategies as systemic solutions for social challenges of urbanization. Development of a conceptual evaluation framework and experimenting with using the example of edible cities in Germany. (research grant, AR 1121/1-1) (Duration: 2017-2021)

IOER postdoc-project:
Urban human-environmental interactions. Efficient strategies for building sustainable cities of tomorrow. (Duration: 2015-2019)

Projects before IOER (PDF)

Memberships

Since 2018: Review Editor for Land Use Dynamics, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Board member of the China Centre for Urban Ecology (CCUE)

Board member of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE)

Awards and scholarships

Since 2020: TUD Young Investigator status, TU Dresden
10/2013: Student Award by the German Section of the International Association of Landscapes Ecology (IALE-D) for best thesis in the field of landscape ecology
01/2012 – 12/2014: Doctoral scholarship, Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU)
08/2011: Fellowship for a stay abroad (China), University Salzburg
08/2005: Fellowship for a stay abroad (New Zealand), DAAD

Teaching

Summer term 2021: "Good Life in the City? – How Citizens Transform Cities through Transdisciplinary Research and Citizen Science ", module: "Spatial Development Project", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
Summer term 2020: "The transformative capacity of cities? Potentials and limits of transformation experiments on the future town Dresden", module: "Spatial Development Project", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
Summer term 2019: "meinGrün. Information and navigation to urban green spaces in cities", module: "Spatial Development Project", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
2017, 2018: Visiting Professor, teaching in the course "Multi-criteria environmental assessment", Master program "Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment", University Bucharest, Romania
2018: Master course, project study "Edible city: challenges and chances of implementation on the example of Dresden", Technical Dresden, Germany
Summer term 2017: "Urban nature: Analysis and assessment of urban ecosystem services in Salzburg, Austria", module: "Spatial Development Project", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden
Since winter term 2016/2017: Seminar "Urban Ecology - Open Space Planning", module "Landscape and Open Space Planning", master course "Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management", TU Dresden

Reviewer

Cities, Ecosystem Services, Ecological Indicators, Environmental Research, Environmental Science & Policy, Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Ecology, Sustainability, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Important publications in international reviewed journals before July 2015

List of the publications before IOER (PDF)

Publications (IOER)

The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development is jointly funded by the federal government and the federal states.

This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.