Academic Functions
- Geschäftsführung des Arbeitskreises „Wechselwirkungen von Mobilität und Raumentwicklung im Kontext gesellschaftlichen Wandels“ der ARL − Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
- Reviews for the following journals
- ZFGG – Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
- Member of the Steering Board of the Forum StadtGesundheit Ruhr of the Hochschule für Gesundheit
- Co-opted member of the Frankfurt Forum for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (FFIA) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
- Expert of the committee “Freedom in practice” of the Rising Tide Foundation
- Head of the Thematic Group “Ethics, Values and Planning” of AESOP – Association of Eurpean Schools of Planning
- Expert for the Israel Science Foundation
- Expert for the Publisher Edward Elgar und Routledge
- Expert und Reviewer for the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) (2021)
- Research Fellow, Observatory of Resilient Practices, Polytecnico di Milano, Italy (2017–2018)
- Consultant in the area of “law simplification and land-use plan revision” for the municipality of Gorgonzola, Italy (2017)
- Consulting work in the field of Community Participation in Planning (CPIP), together with Ulster University (UK), Community Places (UK), and the University of Aveiro (Portugal), Polytecnico di Milano, Italy (2015–2016)
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Cities
- Cosmos + Taxis
- DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin
- Environment and Planning B
- Italian Journal of Planning Practice
- Journal of City Climate Policiy and Economy
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Journal of Planning Literature
- LAND
- Land Use Policy
- Planning Theory
- Planning Theory and Practice
- Sustainability
- Territorio
- The Journal of Architecture
- Urban Design Cities & Health
- Urban Design International
- Urban Studies
- 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 “Forum Nachwuchs“ of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Member of the Forschungsnetzwerk Wohnungslosigkeit der Technischen Hochschule Nürnberg
- Member of the selection committee of the SynergisTen research practice project of the nexus Institute and the Federal Environment Agency
- 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 das Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) at the Technion & Bar-Ilan University.
- Gutachter für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- disP – The Planning Review
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- Smart Cities
- STANDORT – Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie
- sub\urban – Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung
- Sustainability
- Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Transport Reviews
- Travel Behaviour and Society
- – Mitglied im Expert:innenbeirat „Heimatshoppen Reloaded“ der IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein
- 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
- Mitglied der Vernetzungsinitiative „Gemeinsam für das Quartier“ des Deutschen Verbands für Wohnungswesen, Städtebau und Raumordnung e.V. und des Netzwerks Stadt als Campus e.V.
- 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
- Gutachten für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung ǀ Spatial Research and Planning
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
- Growth and Change
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
- International Migration Review
- Regional Science, Policy and Practice
- Member of the working group 1.1.3 „Empfehlungen zur Erreichbarkeitsplanung“ of the FGSV – Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen
- Member of the scientific advisory board of “Zukunftsnetz Mobilität NRW“
- Member of the advisory board for the activation and transfer process “Das Gute Leben selbst gemacht! Knotenpunkte des öffentlichen Lebens” of the REGIONALE 2025 Bergisches RheinLand
- Member of the project advisory board of the BMBF research project “STAWAL – Stadtstruktur, Wohnstandortwahl und Alltagsmobilität“
- Expert for the DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Expert for the CAIS – Center for Advanced Internet Studies
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Energy, Sustainability and Society
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
- European Transport Review
- Geographica Helvetica
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Journal of Urban Mobility
- Moravian Geographical Reports
- Progress in Planning
- SuN – Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit
- Transport Research Review
- Transportation
- Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
- Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
- Travel Behaviour and Society
- Urban Research and Practice
- Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis (TATuP)
- Member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights
- Reviews for the following publishers and journals:
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- Palgrave Macmillan
- Cities
- Critical Discourse Studies
- Land Use Policy
- RaumPlanung
- Social Policy and Society
- Town Planning Review
- Gutachter für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- Urban Planning
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht
- Member of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association
- Member of the Advisory Group Working Committees of the Executive Committee of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz-Association
- Member of the working group „Transit Oriented Development in der Bestandsentwicklung“ 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 ad hoc working group “Regional Planning and Regional Development” of the LAG NRW – 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 “hin & weg” project of the IfL – Institute for Regional Geography and the Difu – German Institute of Urban Affairs
- Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Space – Society – Economy” of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz.
- Expert for the European Research Council
- Expert for the Austrian Geographical Society
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Cities
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- ERDKUNDE – Archive for Scientific Geography
- European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD)
- European Planning Studies
- Growth and Change
- Land Use Policy
- Papers in Regional Science
- Planning Practise & Research
- Political Geography
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- Regional Studies
- Stadtregionales Flächenmanagement
- Sustainability (MDPI)
- Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
- 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 European Commission, Participation in Expert Panel „Driving Urban Transitions Partnership“
- Expert for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council
- Expert for the Research Council KU Leuven
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Applied Mobilities
- City, Territory and Architecture
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
- Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Local Environment
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- Transportation Research Part A
- Urban Design International
- Geschäftsführerin der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen der ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (seit Juni 2011)
- Member of the working group „Geographische Migrationsforschung” of the DGfG – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie
- Member of the Senior Editorial Board of “The Journal Undergraduate Ethnography”
- Gutachterin für folgende Fachzeitschriften
- Education Inquiry
- Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics
- Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
- The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
- Member of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association
- Member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR)
- Spokesperson of the PhD students at the ILS
- Mentee in the mentoring program mentoring³ of the Research Academy Ruhr
- Spokesperson of the working group “mobility and transportation“ in the DVAG – Deutscher Verband für angewandte Geographie (German Association for Applied Geography) (2020–2025)
- 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
- Stellvertretende Vorstandsvorsitzende des Ernährungsrats Dortmund und Region e.V.
- Management director of the working group „Energielandschaften der Zukunft durch Agri-Photovoltaik?“ of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Mitglied des Scientific Board der Sustainable Food Planning Group bei AESOP – Association of European Schools of Planning
- Mitglied bei UrbanAg (Cluster on Entrepreneurial Urban Agriculture)
- Mitglied der International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), Division Landscape and Urban Horticulture
- Member of the Urban Health Transdiciplinary Forum (Thematic Group Mental Urban Health) of the Hochschule Gesundheit Bochum
- Mitglied des Urban Health Transdisciplinary Forum (Themengruppe Mental Urban Health) der Hochschule Gesundheit Bochum
- Gutachterin für das BMBF – Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und das DLR – Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Deutschland
- Gutachterin für die nationale niederländische Wissenschaftsorganisation NWO – Dutch Research Council
- Gutachterin für das Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Kanada
- Gutachterin für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- 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
Gutachten für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- Housing Studies
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung
- Member of the working group 1.1.3 „Empfehlungen zur Erreichbarkeitsplanung“ of the FGSV – Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen
- Member of the research field “Knowledge Metropolises” of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research (KoMet) of the UAR – University Alliance Ruhr
- Member of the editorial board of the journal “Raumforschung und Raumordnung ǀ Spatial Research and Planning“
- Reviews for the following journals:
- Cities
- European Journal for Spatial Development (EJSD)
- European Urban and Regional Studies
- Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
- Nature Cities
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- RaumPlanung
- Regional Studies
- Sustainability
- Urban Geography
- Urban Studies
- Member of the “advisory board Regionalentwicklung” of the RVR – Regionalverband Ruhr
- 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:
- Cities
- European Urban and Regional Studies
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Social and Cultural Geography
- Urban Studies
- Leiter des ARL-Arbeitskreis „Energielandschaften der Zukunft durch Agri-Photovoltaik?“
- Member of the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (since 2010)
- Member of the Scientific Board of the project „Agrophotovoltaic im Obstbau”, financed by German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (since 2021)
- Member of the International Expert Group „Habitat III“ at ISOCARP – International Society for City and Regional Planners (2015–2016)
- Former member of the executive board of DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation (2009-2013)
- Scientific review expert for:
- SNF – Schweizerischen Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- ESRC – Economic and Social Research Council (Großbritannien) im Rahmen einer Gemeinschaftsbegutachtung für ESRC
- DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Deutschland)
- NWO – Dutch Research Council (Niederlande)
- NSFC – National Natural Science Foundation of China (China)
- SSHRC – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- BMBF – Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Member of editorial boards of the journals „Zeitschrift für Evaluation“ and „Central European Journal of Economics and Management (Polen)“
- Reviews for the following journals:
- DISP
- Erdkunde
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
- Sustainability
- Sustainability Science
- Land Use Science
- Land
- Transactions of AESOP
- Evaluation and Program Planning
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Zeitschrift für Angewandte Umweltforschung (Z.A.U.)
- Gutachterin für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
- Europa Regional
- Geoforum
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
- Transportation
- Transportation Research Part A
- 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
