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Alexander Trupp Werdegang

Academic Positions

Since 10/2024: Interim Professorship, Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Since September 2022: Adjunct Professor in Tourism and Hospitality Management, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand
2021-2024: Deputy Dean for Research and Sustainability (initially Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies), School Hospitality and Service Management, Sunway University, Malaysia
2022-2024: Head (acting) of the Asia Pacific Centre for Hospitality Research (APCHR), School Hospitality and Service Management, Sunway University, Malaysia
2020-2024: Associate Professor, School of Hospitality and Service Management, Sunway University, Malaysia
2016-2020: Senior Lecturer and leader of the postgraduate programmes at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
2019 (8/09): Visiting Scholar, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA), Mahidol University, Thailand
2015-2016: Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand
2009 – 2015: University assistant and lecturer at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
2009 & 2011: Part-time lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria

Editor in Chief of ASEAS – Advances in Southeast Asian Studies (formerly known as Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies)
Editorial board member of Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism
Editorial board member of Journal of Population and Social Studies
Editorial board member of Journal of Multidisciplinary in Social Sciences
2017-2019: Associate Editor of the Journal of Pacific Studies, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji

2018: Postgraduate certificate in Tertiary Education (PGCTT), School of Education, The University of the South Pacific
2014: Dissertation (PhD) in Theoretical and Applied Geography, University of Vienna. (Title of dissertation: Migrating Into Tourist Business – Agency and Embeddedness of Ethnic Minority Street Vendors in Thailand)
2006: Master thesis (Msc): “Geography”, Graduation: Mag.rer.nat. University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research

2024: Overall Best Presenter Award for the presentation on ‘Sustainability & Wellbeing in Malaysian SMEs – Managerial Perspectives’, The 10^th International Conference on Hospitality & Tourism Management, 25-26 July, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2022: Best Paper award Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (category best graduate paper 2021 with Kosita Butratana for ‘Gender, class and paradoxical mobilities of Thai marriage migrants in Austria)
2014: Best paper award (The Consumption of European Cultural Tourism – An Indicator of Asian Socio-economic Development and a Quest for Distinction, together with H. T. Bui). The 2014 TOSOK (Tourism Sciences Society of Korea) International Tourism Conference.
2014: Empowering Network for International Thai Studies (ENITS) Award. The Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. (Migrating into Tourist Business. Agency and Mixed Embeddedness of Ethnic Minority Women in Thailand).
2013: Theodor Körner Award: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf soziale Bewegungen in Südostasien. [Social movements in Southeast Asia]. A project of the Austrian society for Southeast Asian Studies (SEAS), (project head Dayana Parvanova).
2012-2015: Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Publishing grants for ASEAS (Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies)

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