Prof. Dr. Christine Schmitt
Thematic focus: Vegetation Geography, Forests, Tropics, Human-Environment Research
Regional focus: Africa - esp. East Africa, Europe
Prof. Dr. Werner Gamerith
Thematic focus: Social Geography, Cultural Geography, Urban Geography
Regional focus: Central Europe, Southern Europe, North America
Prof. Dr. Andreas Eberth
Thematic focus: Education for Sustainable Development, Key Concepts in Geography, Visual Geographies, Postcolonial Perspectives in Education, Degrowth/Post-Growth
Regional focus: East Africa
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rainer
Thematic focus: Human-environment relations (political ecology, more-than-human geographies), interface for cultural and economic geography (qualification, valorisation, marketisation), tourism, the history of geography
Regional focus: Latin America (Argentina and Chile), Alpine Region, New Zealand
Prof. Dr. Jörg Scheffer
Thematic focus: urban and social geography, digitalisation and space (digital geographies), cultural comparison and intercultural communication, geographic information systems and new media
Regional focus: Europe
Prof. Dr. Jörg Scheffer
Thematischer Schwerpunkt: Stadt- und Sozialgeographie, Digitalisierung und Raum (Digitale Geographien), Kulturvergleich und Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Geographische Informationssysteme und Neue Medien
Regionaler Schwerpunkt: Europa
About the Department of Geography
Anthropogeography
The social-scientific field of Anthropogeography, also called Human Geography, deals with structures and dynamics of cultures, societies and economies, as well as spatial implications of human behavior and actions on the environment.
Physical Geography with a focus on Human-Environment Research
Physical Geographywith a focus on Human-Environment Research studies the interactions between the physical environment, past and present spatio-temporal processes and human resource use. The field also investigates how to reconcile the conservation and use of biodiversity and natural resources.
Regional Geography
Regional Geography is the study of world regions. Because of the anthropogeographical and physiogeographical perspective on spatial structures, processes and interactions, Regional Geography can be understood as crossroad of Physical Geography and Anthropogeography.
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