Britta Klagge: Curriculum Vitae (12.10.2015)
Britta Klagge is full professor of Geography at and Head of the Institute of Geography at the University of Bonn,
Germany. Her current research focuses on economic geography with a special interest in energy and carbon issues,
finance, globalization and governance. Earlier on, she also did research in the areas of urban and social geography, and
obtained, in addition to a master degree and a doctorate in geography, a diploma in mathematics.
Britta has many years of experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods and has directed various research
projects, most of them with an international perspective and comparative approach. Her international partners include
colleagues from China, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. Throughout her career Britta Klagge has been funded with
research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the AngloGerman Foundation, the Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho), the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the
PRO*Niedersachsen program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and other funding agencies.
Britta has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, two books and three edited volumes.
Her interdisciplinary and community-building work is reflected in her role as reviewer for various peer-reviewed
international journals and research funding organizations, as guest editor of a number of special issues as well as her
membership and service as leader of an interdisciplinary working group in the Academy for Spatial Research and
Planning (ARL, Hannover).
Academic Education
2004
Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Geography at the Universität Hamburg. Title of Habilitation
dissertation: Armut in westdeutschen Städten (Poverty in West German Cities)
1997
Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Title of Doctoral Dissertation:
Internationalisierung des Bankwesens in Osteuropa (Internationalization of Banking in
Eastern Europe)
1994-1996
Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Geography at the University of Vienna
1991
Master of Science in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Title of M.S.
Thesis: Homeless Families in Madison, Wisconsin. Migrants in Search of a Better Life?
1990
Diploma in Mathematics at the University of Bonn. Title of Diploma Thesis: Die stationäre
Wassertransportgleichung – ein Problem aus der Bodenkunde (The Stationary Water
Transport Equation – a Soil-Science Problem)
1984-1991
Student of Mathematics, Geography (majors), Urban Studies, Soil Science and Physics
(minors) at the Universities of Hamburg (1984-1986), Bonn (1986-1990) and Madison,
Wisconsin (USA, 1990-1991)
1984
High school Degree / A-Levels in Hamburg
Professional Experience
2015-
Head of the Department of Geography, University of Bonn (Vice Head 2013-2015)
2013
Offer of full professorship for Social and Economic Geography, University of Vienna
(declined)
2012-
Full Professor (W3) for Economic Geography, University of Bonn
Member of the Finance Commission of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
(since 2013)
2009-2012
Dean of the Faculty of Cultural and Geosciences, University of Osnabrück
2005-2012
Full Professor (W3) for Economic Geography and Regional Research, University of Osnabrück
Head of Department of Geography (2008-2011), Member of Jean Monnet Centre of
Excellence in European Studies at the University of Osnabrück (2007-2012)
1998-2005
Assistant Professor / Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Hamburg;
Visiting Researcher at the University of Cape Town (2001), University of Stellenbosch (2003)
and University of Cambridge (2004)
1998
Two-months research stay in the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan
1996-1998
Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Bremen. DFG-Project: Armut in deutschen
Städten (Poverty in German Cities)
1994-1996
Ph.D. Researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrain Academy
of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna
1992-1994
Management Trainee in and consultant for the Controlling Department of Deutsche
Lebensmittelwerke GmbH, subsidiary of Unilever in Hamburg
Research Projects since 2000
2014-
Collective financing of renewable energy projects in Switzerland and Germany: comparative
analysis and implications for energy transition policies , with Elena Tillmann, M.Sc., University
of Bonn, PD Dr. Irmi Seidl and Benjamin Schmid, both Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald,
Schnee und Landschaft WSL, Birmensdorf/ Schweiz, funded by SNF
2012-
Geographie(n) der Windenergienutzung und ihre Finanzierung: Veränderungen im
Spannungsfeld von Finanzsystem und Energiepolitik (Geographies of wind energy use and its
financing)
2009-2014
Standortkonkurrenz in der Windindustrie? Entwicklung im Spannungsfeld zwischen „alten“
und „neuen“ Standorten am Beispiel von Deutschland/Dänemark und Spanien/Portugal
(Competition of „old“ and „new“ location in the wind industry: A comparative and integrative
analysis of Germany/Denmark and Portugal/Spain), with Dipl.-Geogr. Pedro Campos Silva,
funded by PRO*Niedersachsen
2011-2013
Governanceprozesse für erneuerbare Energien (Governance processes for renewable
energies) (Working group of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – ARL), with Dipl.Geogr. Cora Arbach, funded by ARL
2009-2013
Biogaserzeugung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Landwirtschaft und Energiewirtschaft mit
Fallstudien in Deutschland und den USA (Biogas production between agriculture and the
energy sector – with case studies in Germany and the US), with Dipl.-Geogr. Cora Arbach,
funded by PRO* Niedersachsen
2011-2012
Global development of the wind industry and the rise of Chinese firms, with Dipl.-Geogr.
Pedro Campos Silva and Dr. Zhigao Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
2006-2010
Knowledge Management in Private Equity Networks and the Role of Regional Financial
Centres, with Dipl.-Geogr. C. Peter, funded by DFG
2007-2010
Chancen und Probleme der dezentralen Stromerzeugung aus regionaler Perspektive – eine
akteurzentrierte Analyse in Niedersachsen und Nordrhein-Westfalen (Potentials and
problems of decentralized energy generation in regional perspective – an actor-oriented
analysis in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia), with Dipl.-Geogr. Tobias Brocke,
funded by PRO*Niedersachsen
2006-2009
Remigration hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte nach Polen und ihre Bedeutung für die
Regionalentwicklung (High-skilled return migration and regional development in Poland); with
Dipl.Geogr. Katrin Klein-Hitpaß, (University of Osnabrück) and in cooperation with the Centre
of Migration Research (CMR, Warsaw), funded by DAAD
2008-2009
Forschungs- und Entwicklungskooperationen der Osnabrücker Hochschulen (Research and
development cooperations of Osnabrueck University and Osnabrueck Polytech), with DiplGeogr. Alexander Wacker, sub-project in the cooperation project „Die regionalwirtschaftliche
Bedeutung der Osnabrücker Hochschulen“ der Universität Osnabrück, der Fachhochschule
Osnabrück und der IHK Osnabrück-Emsland
2004-2005
Decentralised versus Centralised Financial Systems: Is there a Case for Local Capital Markets?,
with Prof. R. Martin, University of Cambridge
2000-2004
Armut und soziale Segregation in westdeutschen Städten (Poverty and social segregation in
German cities), habilitation
2001-2003
Regional Venture Capital Policy in Germany and the UK, with Prof. R. Martin, University of
Cambridge, Dr. P. Sunley, University of Edinburgh, and Dr. C. Berndt, Katholische Universität
Eichstätt, funded by Anglo-German Foundation
2002
Leitbild „Metropole Hamburg – Wachsende Stadt“. Konzeptionelle Grundlagen und
internationale Bestandsaufnahme, with Dr. S. Heeg and Prof. J. Oßenbrügge, Expertise for the
City of Hamburg
2000-2001
Kooperation von Metropolen als neuer städtischer Politikansatz (Metropolitan cooperation as
an urban-policy approach), with Dr. S. Heeg and Prof. J. Oßenbrügge, Expertise for the City of
Hamburg
Mandates
Member Editorial Board „Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie”
Member Editorial Board “Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society”
Co-Editor series „Wirtschaftsgeographie“ in LIT Verlag
Member German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), Hannover
Member Research Committee of the Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Member Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
Member Scientific Board of ILS – Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung,
Dortmund
Liaison professor German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen
Volkes)
Reviewer
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Cambridge Journal of Regions,
Economy and Society, Die Erde, Economic Geography, Environment & Planning A, European
Planning Studies, European Urban and Regional Studies, Geographica Helvetica,
Geographische Zeitschrift, International Migration, Journal for Energy, Sustainability and
Society, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Regional Studies, Transactions of the Institute of
British Geographers, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie
LIT Verlag, Taylor & Francis Books
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hans Böckler Stiftung, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond,
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
PhD and Master students
Successfully finished PhD dissertations as Examiner or Co-examiner: 11
Successfully finished Diploma and Master theses (only first examiner): more than 60
For Publications see
http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/forschung/wissenschafliche-bereiche/wirtschafts-undsozialgeographie/members/publications-klagge.pdf