Leonard Kwhang-Gil Lemke begun working at the Department of Human Geography at the University of Passau in September 2025, where he is investigating the touristification of rural housing markets. Previously, he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he primarily worked on his doctoral thesis on the Covid-19 crisis, resilience and agritourism. His interdisciplinary academic background includes a bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands).

Research focus:

• Economic geography of rural areas
• Alpine tourism development
• Resilience
• Sustainable development

Regional focus:

• Tyrol, Austria
• South Tyrol, Italy
• Chiang Mai, Thailand

Lemke, L. K. G. (2025). Reproductive agencies in regional economic resilience: insights from Covid-19 in Tyrol.  European Planning Studies, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2503884

Lemke LK-G, Beier J and Hanger-Kopp S (2024) Exploring procedural justice in stakeholder identification using  a systematic mapping approach. Environmental Science & Policy 162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103900

Hanger-Kopp S, Lemke LK-G and Beier J (2024) What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems. Sustainability Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01497-3

Lemke LK-G, Sakdapolrak P and Trippl M (2023) Unresolved issues in regional economic resilience: Conceptual ways forward. Progress in Human Geography. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231191242