Dr.-Ing. Riyan Habeeb

03/2020-08/2023: DLGS Fellow 
Since 11/2023: Research Associate at IOER

Dissertation
Habeeb, R., 2024. Nature-based Solutions for Urban Water Security in Medium-sized Cities from South Asia: Case of Dehradun, India. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-892162.

Submitted to the Faculty of Architecture: 09/2023
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende, Dr.-Ing. habil. Regine Ortlepp

Dr.-Ing. Mengfan Jiang 

06/2018-09/2021: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Jiang, M. (2022): From massive rapid reconstruction to small-scale stepwise urban renewal: A contribution to socially integrative cities? - Case studies of Wuhan, available at: ​https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-828832 

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences 01/2022
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller 

Dr. rer. pol. Fahim Nawaz

03/2019-06/2022: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Nawaz, F., 2022. Three essays on determinants of radicalisation – a case of North-western Pakistan. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-826677. 

Submitted to the Faculty of Business and Economics: 08/2022
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum

Dr. rer. nat. Fred Nkubito

03/2018-06/2021: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Nkubito, F., 2022. Low-income tenants' housing accessibility and affordable housing provision barriers. The case of Kigali, Rwanda. Available at:  https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-825726. 

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences 03/2022
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. pol. Friederike Seifert

03/2017-02/2020: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Seifert., F., 2022. Regional Disparities in the 21st-Century USA (Three Essays in Empirical Regional Economics. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-823715. 

Submitted to the Faculty of Business and Economics: 01/2022
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum

Dr. rer. nat. Jiyoon Song

03/2019-02/2022: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Song, J., 2023. Integration of climate measures into urban regeneration, using the case of Seoul. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-828931. 

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 05/2022
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr.-Ing. Nikita Sharma

03/2018-06/2021: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Sharma, N., 2022. Urban Governance, Urbanization and Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management: A Case of Kathmandu, Nepal. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-788753.

Submitted to the Faculty of Architecture: 09/2021
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende

Dr.-Ing. Jiaying Lin

03/2016-02/2019: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Lin., J., 2022. Interactions of actors and local institutions in policy process. From patriotic health campaign to Healthy City in Shanghai. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-798864. 

Submitted to Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 11/2020
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. nat. Diana Alejandra Jiménez Montoya

03/2017-02/2020: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Montoya,. D., 2021. Linking indigenous territorial autonomy and environmental sustainability: A case study of the resguardos El Duya in Colombia. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-750127.

Submitted to Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 07/2020
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr.-Ing. Neelakshi Joshi

03/2016-02/2019: DLGS Fellow 
Since 09/2021: Postdoctoral researcher at IOER 

Dissertation
Joshi, N., 2019. Contextualizing urban risk governance in the Uttarakhand Himalayas: The case of Almora, India. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-355155

Submitted to the Faculty of Architeture: 06/2019
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende

Dr. rer. nat. Hanna Kang

03/2016-02/2019: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Kang, H., 2020. Capacity Factors for Urban Sustainability Transformations – The Eco-capital Suwon in South Korea. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-724429.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 06/2019
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. pol. Julia Hillmann

09/2012-02/2015: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Hillmann, J., 2019. Pathways to organizational resilience: conceptualization, construct clarity, empirical and theoretical advancements. Dresden: Hochschulschrift, Technische Universität Dresden.

Submitted to the Faculty of Business and Economics: 09/2018
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther

Dr. phil. Sara Al Nassir

03/2015-02/2018: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Al Nassir, S., 2019. Constructive Exceptionality | The Interplay of Agency and Structure in Constituting Zaatari’s Market Street, Al-Souq. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-344607.

Submitted to the Faculty of Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science: 07/2018
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antonia Kupfer

Dr. rer. silv. Patrick Opoku

03/2015-02/2018: DLGS Fellow 

Dissertation:
Opoku, P., 2018. An Analysis of how Access to Land and Institutions affect Urban Forests Development. A Case Study of Kumasi, Ghana. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-332516.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 06/2018 
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Norbert Weber

Dr.-Ing. Shikha Ranjha

03/2015-02/2018: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation

Ranjha, S., 2019. Maintenance of Neighbourhood Parks. Perspective from Resident Welfare Association Presidents in East Delhi, India. Available at: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-355033.

Submitted to the Faculty of Architecture: 10/2018 
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Wende

Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Addai Antwi-Boasiako

03/2014-02/2017: DLGS fellow

Dissertation
Antwi-Boasiako, B. A., 2017, Homeowners and disaster insurance - Insights from Ghana. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-225502.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 01/2017
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr.-Ing. Sudipti Biswas

01/2010-06/2013: DLGS Fellow 

Dissertation
Biswas, S., 2019. Urban Renewal in the Traditional Center of A Megacity A Case Study of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-331351.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 12/2017
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller 

Dr.-Ing. Goran Muric

03/2014-05/2017: DLGS Fellow 

Dissertation
Muric, G., 2017. Resilience of the Critical Communication Networks against Spreading Failures - Case of the European National and Research Networks. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-228883.

Submitted to the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering: 06/2017
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eduard A. Jorswieck

Dr. phil. Amsalu Woldie Yalew

03/2014-02/2017: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Yalew, A. W., 2017. Economic Development under Climate Change: Econonomy-wide and Regional Analysis for Ethiopia.

Submitted to the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences: 03/2017
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte

Dr. rer. nat. Lita Akmentina

01/2012-02/2015: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Akmentina, L., 2018. Resilience to Urban Shrinkage in Riga. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-232632.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 03/2016
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. nat. Raphael Atanga

03/2012-06/2015: DLGS fellow

Dissertation
Atanga, R. A., 2017. Flood Risk Management Strategies and Resilience: The Capacity of Key Stakeholders to Respond to the Unexpected Course of Flood Disasters in the City of Accra, Ghana. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-226786.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 09/2016
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Schanze 

Dr.-Ing. Jessica Hemmingway

01/2010 - 03/2013: DLGS Fellow
Since 06/2019: Senior Researcher at IOER 

Dissertation
Hemmingway, J., 2017. U.S. Local Government Adaptation to Climate Change: An Examination of Influences on the Decision of Local Governments to Conduct Planned Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban and Rural New York State. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-232723.

Submitted to Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 08/2016
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Ing. Milan Husar, PhD

10/2015 - 03/2016: Visiting researcher/ Associate member

Dissertation
Husar, M., 2017. Vulnerability of settlement structures and multilevel governance. 

Submitted to the Institute of Managemt, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava: 10/2016
Supervisor: Prof. Ing. arch. Maroš Finka, PhD

Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Esch

03/2012-06/2015: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Esch, S., 2017. Regionale Fachkräftesicherung durch Rück- und Zuwanderung. Der Beitrag von Rück- und Zuwanderungsinitiativen zur Resilienz ostdeutscher Regionen. IÖR Schriften, 71. Berlin: Rhombos-Verlag.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 07/2015
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller 

Dr. rer. nat. Cindy Krause

01/2010-09/2013: DLGS Fellow 

Dissertation
Krause, C. (2017): Großereignisbewerbungen als Instrument aktiver Stadtentwicklungspolitik: Eine vergleichende Analyse mehrfach gescheiterter Städte in Deutschland, available on line at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-212410.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 10/2015
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller 

Dr. rer. nat. Nelya Rakhimova

03/2012 - 06/2015: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Rakhimova, N., 2017. Social resilience and adaptation in urban areas of the United States facing financially insecure aging. Case study of Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-223588.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 10/2015
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller 

Dr. rer. pol. Thomas Topf

01/2010-03/2013: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Topf, T., 2016. Care for the Elderly in Germany: Efficiency, Productivity and their Determinants. An Empirical Analysis for the Years 1999 to 2009. Schriften­reihe Gesund­heits­wissen­schaften, 15. Hamburg: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Kovač.

Submitted to Faculty of Business and Economics: 06/2015
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Karmann

Dr.-Ing. Jennifer Washco

01/2010 - 03/2013: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Washco, J., 2016. The community and neighborhood impacts of local foreclosure responses: A case study of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-208403.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 06/2015
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte, Prof. Hazel Morrow-Jones

Dr.-Ing. José Mercado

01/2010-03/2013: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Mercado Fernández, J. L., 2015. The Role of Energy Efficiency in the Private Housing Sector - The Case of Santiago de Chile. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-183384.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 10/2014
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Ortner

01/2008-12/2010: Visiting researcher/ Associate member 

Dissertation
Ortner, A., 2015. Regionale Charakteristik der Nachfrage und des Angebots an Wohnungen in der Ukraine seit dem Jahr 2000: Wohnungsbestandsentwicklung in den Oblasten der Ukraine vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels. Available at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-171054.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 10/2014
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller

Dr.-Ing. Mei-Ing Ruprecht

01/2010-12/2013: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Ruprecht, M.-I., 2014. Zwischen baulicher Erneuerung und sozialräumlicher Polarisierung: Zeilenbauten der 1950/60er Jahre in Hannover, IÖR Schriften, 66. Berlin: , Rhombos-Verlag.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 03/2014
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jürg Sulzer, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. pol. Kristin Stechemesser

04/2010-06/2012: visiting researcher/ associate member 

Dissertation
Stechemesser, K., 2015. Interdependence between the Natural Environment and Organizations - The Case of Climate Change.

Submitted to the Faculty of Faculty of Business and Economics: 03/2014
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther

Dr. rer. pol. Susann Kühn

01/2010-03/2013: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Kühn, S., 2015. Church tax, church disaffiliation, and voluntary giving. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-177647.

Submitted to the Faculty of Business and Economics: 10/2013
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum 

Dr. rer. nat. Marijana Pantic

04/2008 - 08/2011: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Pantić, M., 2014. Sustainable development perspectives for Serbian mountain areas: lessons from the European context. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-144339.

Submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences: 12/2013
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr.-Ing. Anne Pfeil

04/2010 - 06/2012: Visiting researcher/ Associate member

Dissertation
Pfeil, A., 2014. Leerstand nutzen - Perspektivenwechsel im Umgang mit dem strukturellen Wohnungsleerstand in ostdeutschen Gründerzeitgebieten. IÖR Schriften, 64. Berlin: Rhombos-Verlag.

Submitted to the Faculty of Architecture: 07/2012
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürg Sulzer

Dr. rer. nat. Christine Meyer

01/2008-12/2010: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Meyer, C., 2011. Planning for an Ageing Population. Experiences form Local Areas in United Kingdom. IÖR Schriften, 56. Berlin: Rhombos-Verlag.

Submitted to the Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences (now Faculty of Environmental Sciences): 01/2011
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Müller

Dr. rer. pol. Martin Nowack

11/2010 - 07/2011: DLGS Fellow

07/2008 - 10/2010
Associate member at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Nowack, M., 2013. Possibilities of scenario planning for sanitation organizations facing demographic change. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-98554.

Submitted to the Faculty of Business and Economics: 08/2011
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther

Dr. rer. pol. Christian Schmidt

01/2008-03/2011: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Schmidt, C., 2012. Individual and household mobility decision making under uncertainty. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-86165.

Submitted to Faculty of Business and Economics: 04/2011
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Kemnitz

Dr. phil. Katharina Ulbrich

01/2008-03/2011: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Ulbrich, K., 2011. Familiale Generationenbeziehungen und der Übergang in die Elternschaft. Eine qualitativ kulturvergleichende Studie. Available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-78572.

Submitted to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science: 03/2011
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Lenz

Dr.-Ing. Elena Wiezorek

01/2008-03/2011: DLGS Fellow

Dissertation
Wiezorek, E., 2011. Eigentümerstandortgemeinschaften und Urban Governance. Eine Untersuchung kollektiven Handelns in der Stadtentwicklung am Beispiel von Wohnquartieren im demografischen Wandel, IÖR Schriften, 54. Berlin: Rhombos-Verlag.

Submitted to the Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences (now Environmental Sciences): 02/2011
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Müller