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Tabea Bork-Hüffer Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
- since 2025: Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Germany
- 2017 - 2025: Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- 2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral and Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- 2013: Teaching Fellow at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
- 2012: Scientific Coordinator and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Cologne, Germany: German Research Foundation (DFG)-Priority Program 1233 “Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change”
- 2008, 2010: Teaching Fellow at the Geography and Planning School, Sun-Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- 2007 - 2011: Research Associate at the Department of Geography, University of Cologne
- 2002 - 2007: Studies of Geography, Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Bonn, University of Cologne and Queen’s University Belfast
(This list includes 27 months of maternity and parental leave taken in 2014, 2016-2017, 2021)
Degrees
- 2018: Habilitation (venia legendi: “Geography”), University of Cologne
Title of thesis: “The Politics of Space and Place in Urban Asia: Mobilities, Migration and Digitisation” - 2012: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Cologne, summa cum laude (0,0)
Title of thesis: “Migrants’ Health Seeking Actions in Guangzhou, China. Individual Action, Structure and Agency: Linkages and Change” - 2007: Diploma (Geography), Universities of Bonn and Cologne, passed with distinction (1,0)
Title of thesis (in German): “Analyse und Bewertung der Gesundheitssituation in Dörfern-in-der-Stadt in Guangzhou, China”
Awards & Honors
- 2025: Visiting Professorship, National University of Malaysia (02/2025)
- 2023: Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Birmingham (08 – 09/2023)
- 2013 - 2016: Feodor-Lynen Fellowship, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation, Germany
- 2013: VGDH-Dissertationspreis (award for doctoral thesis granted by the Association of Geographers at Universities and Research Institutions in the German-speaking region [Austria, Germany, Switzerland])
- 2009: Dr. Prill Preis (award for Diploma thesis granted by the Association of Geographers, Cologne)
- 2006: DAAD Scholarship (for field research abroad)
- 2004 - 2005: EU ERASMUS/SOKRATES Scholarship (Queen’s University Belfast)
Further Academic Activities & Roles
- 2022 - 2024: Head of the Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck
- since 2024: Editorial Board Member Journal “Geography Compass“, Section Social Geography
- since 2023: Faculty member of the Doctoral College “Organizing the Digital”, University of Innsbruck
- since 2021: Editorial Board Member Journal “Erdkunde“
- 2020 - 2024: Deputy Head of the Association of Academic Geography Austria (“Geographieverband”)
- since 2020: Invited member of the Disaster Competence Network of Austria (DCNA), board for Public Health
- since 2019: Editorial Board Member Journal “Digital Geography and Society“
- since 2019: Faculty member of the Research Centre “Migration & Globalisation”, University of Innsbruck
- since 2019: Member of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Network “Digitale Geographien”
- since 2018: Faculty member of the Doctoral College “Dynamics of Inequalities and Difference in Times of Globalisation”, University of Innsbruck
- since 2017: Chair of the Workgroup “Urban Geography in the Global South”
- since 2017: Chair of the Workgroup “East Asia” of the German Association of Geography (DGfG)
- since 2017: Faculty member of the Research Centre “Global Change – Regional Sustainability”, University of Innsbruck
- 2014 - 2015: Member of the Asia Research Institute Graduate Forum Committee, National University of Singapore
- 2013 - 2015: Chair of the Asia Research Institute Social and Welfare Committee, National University of Singapore