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