Academic Functions
- Management of the working group “Wechselwirkungen von Mobilität und Raumentwicklung im Kontext des gesellschaftlichen Wandels“ of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Member of the DGfZP – Deutschen Gesellschaft für Zeitpolitik
- Member of the Pegasus-Netzwerk für Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
- Participant at the ium – institute for urban mobility
- Manager at the innovation centre “Energy“ (IZE – Innovationszentrum Energie) of the TU Berlin, Cluster “Energieeffizienter Stadtverkehr“ (2010–2013)
- Co-opted member of the Frankfurt Forum for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (FFIA) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
- Leader of the thematic group “Ethics, Values and Planning” of the AESOP – Association of Eurpean Schools of Planning
- Expert for the Israel Science Foundation
- Expert and reviews for the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) (2021)
- Research Fellow, Observatory of Resilient Practices, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy (2017–2018)
- Consultant “law simplification and land-use plan revision“, Municipality of Gorgonzola, Italy (2017)
- Research Collaborator, Community Participation in Planning (CPIP), in partnership with Ulster University (UK), Community Places (UK), and the University of Aveiro (Portugal), Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy (2015–2016)
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Cosmos + Taxis
- Environment Planning B
- LAND
- Land Use Policy
- Planning Theory
- Planning Theory and Practice
- Sustainability
- Territorio
- Member of the Project Advisory Board „Global Nachhaltige Kommune in NRW ” of the Service Agency Kommunen in der Einen Welt – ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL gGmbH
- Jury member of the „Bodenschutzpreis Nordrhein-Westfalen“ of the Ministry for Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia and the AAV – Verband für Flächenrecycling und Altlastensanierung
- Member of the Advisory Board for the „Masterplan Mobilität Münster 2035+“
- Member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the City of Münster
- Member of the “Junges Forum“ of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Member of the Scientific Committee UrbanFood 2022 of the International Society for Horticultural Science
- Mitglied im Scientific Committee der internationalen Konferenz „Smart Horticulture for Sustainable Cities 2017” der University of Western Australia
- Deutsche Delegierte im Verwaltungsausschuss der COST-Action “Urban Allotment Gardens in Cities – Future, Challenges and Lessons Learned”
- Jury member for the International Student Competition Urban Farm 2022 at two locations (Bologna, and Stockholm) of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
- Jury member for the International Student Competition Urban Farm 2020 at three locations (Galliera, Lanuvio and Longyearbyen) of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
- Chair der COST-Action “Urban Allotment Gardens in Cities – Future, Challenges and Lessons Learned”
- Mitglied in der Working Group 4 „Urban Planing and Urban Design“ der COST-Action “Urban Allotment Gardens in European Cities” der Europäischen Union
- Member of the network “Zukunft Bauen NRW“
- Co-opted member of the managing board of “altbau plus e.V.“
- Jury member for the International Student Competition Urban Farm 2019 at three locations (Belluno, Bologna and Conegliano) of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
- Reviews for the following journals:
- International Journal for Urban Sustainable Development
- Journal of Landscape Architecture
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Land Use Planning
- Land Use Policies
- PLOS One
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
- Reviews for the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and the Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
- Reviews for the publication series “Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung“ (Springer VS)
- Gutachter für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- disP – The Planning Review
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- STANDORT – Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie
- sub\urban – Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung
- Sustainability
- Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Travel Behaviour and Society
- Mitinitiatorin und Ausloberin des studentischen Ideenwettbewerbs „Dortmund nach Acht“ der TU Dortmund, Wirtschaftsförderung Dortmund, Stadt nach Acht, Live Initiative NRW und Live Komm
- Mitglied der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen der ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
- Leitung der Arbeitsgruppe „Onlinehandel und Raumentwicklung“ der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen der ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (2017–2020)
- Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe „Einzelhandelsentwicklung in Nordrhein-Westfalen planvoll steuern“ der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen der ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (2009–2012)
- Mitglied der Jury im mehrstufigen Bieterverfahren für die Veräußerung und Realisierung des ehemaligen Hertie-Warenhauses in Rheine
- Mitglied im Informationskreis für Raumplanung (IfR)
- Mitglied im Arbeitskreis Geografische Handelsforschung
- Member of the Enquete Commission “Einsamkeit – Combating social isolation in Northrhine-Westphalia” of the Landtag NRW
- Steering group member of the research project “Connecting the Plots” of the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies
- Leader of the working group “Geographische Migrationsforschung” of the DGfG – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie
- Reviews for the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
- Member of the working group “Räumliche Mobilität“ in the section “Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie“ of the German Sociological Association
- Member of the working group “Geographische Migrationsforschung“ of the DGfG – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie
- Member of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research (KoMet) of the UAR – University Alliance Ruhr, Research Field “Urban Form, Society and Culture“
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Environment and Planning C
- Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Comparative Population Studies
- Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Papers in Regional Science
- Population, Space and Place
- Regional Studies, Regional Science
- The Professional Geographer
- Urban Affairs Review
- Member of the scientific advisory board of “Zukunftsnetz Mobilität NRW“
- Member of the project advisory board of the BMBF research project “STAWAL – Stadtstruktur, Wohnstandortwahl und Alltagsmobilität“
- Expert for the CAIS – Center for Advanced Internet Studies
- Reviews for the following journals:
- European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
- Geographica Helvetica
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Transportation
- Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
- Urban Research and Practice
- Reviews for the following publishers and journals:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Cities
- Critical Discourse Studies
- Land Use Policy
- RaumPlanung
- Social Policy and Society
- Town Planning Review
- Member of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association
- Member of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Member of the research field “Knowledge Metropolises“ in the Competence Field Metropolitan Research (KoMet) of the UAR – University Alliance Ruhr
- Member of the advisory board of the project “hin & weg“ of the IfL – Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and the difu – Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
- Member of the editorial board of the journal “Space – Society – Economy“ of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz.
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Cities
- ERDKUNDE – Archive for Scientific Geography
- European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD)
- European Planning Studies
- Growth and Change
- Land Use Policy
- Planning Practise & Research
- Political Geography
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- Regional Studies
- Stadtregionales Flächenmanagement
- Sustainability (MDPI)
- Urban Science (MDPI)
- Member of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen of the ARL –Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association
- Head of the working group “Onlinehandel und Raumentwicklung“ of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Global Architecture, Osaka University, Japan (since 2010)
- Member of the Architectural Institute of Japan
- Expert for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Applied Mobilities
- City, Territory and Architecture
- Environment and Planning B
- International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
- Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Local Environment
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- Editorial management of the publication series “Metropolis und Region“ of SURF – Stadt- und regionalwissenschaftliches Forschungsnetzwerk Ruhr
- Management of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Effective member of the advisory council for Spatial Planning of the Government of the Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgien
- Member of the working group Shrinkage of the City Planning Institute of Japan
- Invited expert of the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia on the topic “Urban Development and Housing”
- Co-founder and mentor in the research training group “Mittelstadt Mitmachstadt“ of the Faculty of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen and the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
- Founding member of the “Making of Housing“ committee at RWTH Aachen University
- Mentor in the mentoring program for university graduates from Central and Eastern Europe of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
- Mentor in the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” of the TU Berlin
- Head of the LODE_PORT International Summer Academy
- Editor of the series “city@region“
- Member of the “Informationskreis für Raumplanung”
- Member of the “Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen”
- Speaker of the Working Group for Mobility and Transport in DVAG – Deutscher Verband für angewandte Geographie
- Member of the managing board of the Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Member of the managing board of the Wissenschaftsforums Ruhr
- Member of the managing board of the GFS – Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Strukturwandels in der Arbeitsgesellschaft e. V.
- Member of the board of trustees of the Central Institute for Spatial Planning at the University of Münster
- Member of the board of trustees of the Stiftung Umwelt und Schadensvorsorge of the SV Gebäudeversicherung AG
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
- Member of the Beirat für Raumentwicklung of the Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen
- Member and head of the advisory board of the Zentrum für ländliche Entwicklung (ZeLe) of the MUNV NRW – Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Member of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association
- Member and head of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association
- Member of the International Academic Advisory Board of the Manchester Urban Institute
- Member of the “Expertengruppe-Schweizer-Tiefenlager“ (ESchT), founded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
- Member of the advisory board for the development of a State Traffic Model for North Rhine-Westphalia of the MUNV NRW – Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Member of the expert advisory board of the smart-cities-program “MYK10: Network in Region“ of the district of Mayen-Koblenz
- Member of the research field “Knowledge Metropolises“ in the Competence Field Metropolitan Research (KoMet) of the UAR – University Alliance Ruhr
- Member of the editorial board for the journal “Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning“
- Expert for the Zukunftsclusterinitiative of the aspirant “Clean Autonomous Public Transport – CAPT – integrativ, sicher, attraktiv zu Wasser und zu Land“ of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Expert for the DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Member of the thematic group “Sustainable Food Planning” of the AESOP – Association of Eurpean Schools of Planning
- Member of the UrbanAg (Cluster on Entrepreneurial Urban Agriculture)
- Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), Division Landscape and Urban Horticulture
- Expert for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and for the German Aerospace Center, Germany.
- Expert for the Dutch National Science Organisation NWO – Dutch Research Council
- Expert for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Canada
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Acta Horticulturae (ISHS)
- Agriculture
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Applied Geography
- Biological Agriculture and Horticulture
- Cities
- Environment, Development and Sustainability
- Food Security
- Futures
- Global Food Security
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Journal of Urban Technology
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Landscape Online
- Land Use Policy
- NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
- Science of the Total Environment
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Cities and Society
- Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems
- Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
- Urban Research and Practice
- Water
- Geschäftsführerin des Arbeitskreises „Multilokale Lebensführung und räumliche Entwicklungen“ der ARL − Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Leibniz-Forum für Raumwissenschaften
- Member of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research (KoMet) of the UAR – University Alliance Ruhr, Research Field “Knowledge Metropolises“
- Member of the editorial team of “Raumforschung und Raumordnung ǀ Spatial Research and Planning“
- Reviews for the following journals:
- European Urban and Regional Studies
- Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- RaumPlanung
- Sustainability
- Urban Geography
- Urban Studies
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the project “Regional.Responsibility.Resonance: Innovationen durch CRR (R³)” of the Hochschule Niederrhein
- Member of the research group “Postwachstumsökonomien“ at the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association (2017–2019)
- Member of the editorial board of the journal „Local Economy“
- Member of the board of Directors of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung auf dem Gebiet des Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesens e.V. of the EBZ – European Business School
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the Specialised Information Service (FID – Fachinformationsdienst) BAUdigital
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the project “Transformation der Lokalen Ökonomie” of the Hochschule Niederrhein (2019–2022)
- Expert for the European Commission – Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Actions (MSCA)
- Reviews for the following journals:
- European Urban and Regional Studies
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Social and Cultural Geography
- Urban Studies
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Europa Regional
- Geoforum
- Transportation
- Urban Planning
- Sachverständiger für den Ausschuss für Heimat, Kommunales, Bauen und Wohnen des Landtags Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Member of the ad-hoc working group “Förderinstrument Regionalentwicklung“ of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Member of the steering group “Masterplan Kommunale Sicherheit“ of the city of Dortmund
- Mitglied in der Expertenrunde zur zweiten Zwischenevaluierung „Soziale Stadt“ des BMUB – Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit
- Permanent guest of the working group “Stadtentwicklungsplanung“ of the Städtetag Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Mitglied im Arbeitskreis zum Planspiel Lärmaktionsplanung des MKULNV NRW – Ministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Reviewer for the journal Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning