Academic Functions

  • Geschäftsführung des Arbeitskreises „Wechselwirkungen von Mobilität und Raumentwicklung im Kontext gesellschaftlichen Wandels“ der ARL − Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
  • 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
    • Environment and Planning B
    • 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 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
  • 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
    • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Geschäftsführerin der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen der ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (seit Juni 2011)
  • 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 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
    • Geographica Helvetica
    • Journal of Transport Geography
    • Journal of Urban Mobility
    • Moravian Geographical Reports
    • Progress in Planning
    • SuN – Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit
    • Transport Research Review
    • Transport Reviews
    • 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)
    • 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 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 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)
    • 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
  • Gutachterin für folgende Fachzeitschriften:
    • Europa Regional
    • Geoforum
    • International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
    • Transportation
    • Transportation Research Part A
    • Urban Planning
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stellvertretende Vorstandsvorsitzende des Ernährungsrats Dortmund und Region e.V.
  • 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 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 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