Alumni

Dr. rer. nat. Lita Akmentina


01/2012-02/2015
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Akmentina, L. (2018): Resilience to Urban Shrinkage in Riga, available on line 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. Benjamin Addai Antwi-Boasiako


03/2014-02/2017
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation (cumulative)
Antwi-Boasiako, B. A. (2017): Homeowners and disaster insurance - Insights from Ghana, available on line 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. rer. nat. Raphael Atanga


03/2012-06/2015
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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 on line at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-226786

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

Dr.-Ing. Sudipti Biswas


01/2010-06/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Urban Renewal in the Traditional Center of A Megacity A Case Study of Dhaka, Bangladesh, available on line 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. rer. nat. Stefan Esch


03/2012 - 06/2015
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

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

Dr.-Ing. Riyan Habeeb


03/2020-08/2023
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Habeeb, R. (2023), Nature-based Solutions for Urban Water Security in Medium-sized Cities from South Asia: Case of Dehradun, India. 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. Jessica Hemmingway


01/2010 - 03/2013
Scholarship holder of the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
How Are Local Governments Adapting to Climate Change and Why? A Survey of Local Governments in the State of New York, available on line 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

Dr. rer. pol. Julia Hillmann


09/2012-02/2015
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation (cumulative)
Hillmann, J. (2019): Pathways to organizational resilience: conceptualization, construct clarity, empirical and theoretical advancements, Hochschulschrift, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden.
Submitted to the Faculty of Business and Economics: 09/2018
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther

Hillmann, J., Duchek, S., Meyr, J., Günther, E. 2018. Educating future managers for developing resilient organizations: The case of scenario planning. Journal of Management Education, 42(4): 461–495.

Schmidt, A., Bergmann, A., Hillmann, J., Günther, E. 2018. Outperforming peers through a comprehensive climate change strategy: The case of electric utilities. Journal of Business Strategies, 35(2): 48–75.

Hillmann, J.; Guenther, E. (2020). Organizational Resilience: A Valuable Construct for Management Research? International Journal of Management Reviews. (online first). DOI: 10.1111/ijmr.12239 Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijmr.12239

Ing. Milan Husar, PhD


10/2015 - 03/2016
Associate member at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
M. Husar (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.-Ing. Mengfan Jiang


06/2018-09/2021
Scholarship Holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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 online athttps://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.-Ing. Neelakshi Joshi


03/2016-02/2019
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation Joshi, N. (2019). Contextualizing urban risk governance in the Uttarakhand Himalayas: The case of Almora, India,  available on line 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. Cindy Krause


01/2010-09/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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. Hanna Kang


03/2016-02/2019
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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. Susann Kühn


01/2010-03/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Kühn, S. (2015): Church tax, church disaffiliation, and voluntary giving, available online 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.-Ing. Jiaying Lin


03/2016-02/2019
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Lin., J. (2022). Interactions of actors and local institutions in policy process. From patriotic health campaign to Healthy City in Shanghaihttps://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.-Ing. José Mercado


01/2010-03/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

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

Dr. rer. nat. Christine Meyer


01/2008-12/2010
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

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. nat. Diana Alejandra Jiménez Montoya


03/2017-02/2020
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Montoya,. D. (2021): Linking indigenous territorial autonomy and environmental sustainability: A case study of the resguardos El Duya in Colombia, available online 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. Goran Muric


03/2014-05/2017
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation

Muric, G. (2017): Resilience of the Critical Communication Networks against Spreading Failures - Case of the European National and Research Networks, available on line at: http://www.qucosa.de/recherche/frontdoor/?tx_slubopus4frontend[id]=22888

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

Dr. phil. Sara Al Nassir


03/2015-02/2018
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

Submitted to the Faculty of Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science: 06/2018

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antonia Kupfer

Dr. rer. pol. Fahim Nawaz


03/2019-06/2022
Scholarship Holder at Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Nawaz, F. (2022): Three essays on determinants of radicalisation – a case of North-western Pakistan, available online 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
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Nkubito, F. (2022): Low-income tenants' housing accessibility and affordable housing provision barriers. The case of Kigali, Rwanda,  available online 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. Martin Nowack


11/2010 - 07/2011
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

Dissertation (cumulative)
Nowack, M. (2013): Possibilities of scenario planning for sanitation organizations facing demographic change, available on line 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

Publications for dissertation

Edeltraud Günther, Martin Nowack (2009): Szenarioplanung, in: Das Wirtschaftsstudium 38(3), p. 340-341.

Martin Nowack, Edeltraud Günther (2009): Szenarioplanung im Integrierten Wasserressourcenmanagement, in: uwf - UmweltWirtschaftsForum 17(3), p. 251-255.

Martin Nowack, Sebastian John, Jens Tränckner, Edeltraud Günther (2010): Der demografische Wandel als Gebührentreiber in der Siedlungsentwässerung - Ein Vergleich des Demografieeffektes mit Spar-, Betriebskosten-, Kapitalkosten- und Industrieffekten, in: gwf Wasser/Abwasser, 151, p. 1076 -1085.

Martin Nowack, Edeltraud Günther (2011): Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung mit der Delphi-Methode, in: Das Wirtschaftsstudium, 40(4), p. 510-511.

Martin Nowack, Jan Endrikat, Edeltraud Günther (2011): Review of Delphi-based scenario studies: Quality and design considerations, in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change 78(9), doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2011.03.006.

Dr. rer. silv. Patrick Opoku


03/2015-02/2018
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation:
Opoku, Patrick (2018): An Analysis of how Access to Land and Institutions affect Urban Forests Development. A Case Study of Kumasi, Ghana, available on line 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. rer. nat. Andreas Ortner


01/2008-12/2010
Associate member at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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 on line at: http://nbn-resolving.de/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. rer. nat. Marijana Pantic


04/2008 - 08/2011
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Pantić, M. (2014): Sustainable development perspectives for Serbian mountain areas: lessons from the European context, available on line 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
Associate member at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

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

Dr. rer. nat. Nelya Rakhimova


03/2012 - 06/2015
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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 on line 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.-Ing. Shikha Ranjha


03/2015-02/2018
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation: Ranjha, S. (2019). Maintenance of Neighbourhood Parks.Perspective from Resident Welfare Association Presidents in East Delhi, India. Available online at: https://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.-Ing. Mei-Ing Ruprecht


01/2010-12/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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

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

Dr. rer. pol. Christian Schmidt


01/2008-03/2011
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS)

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

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

Dr. rer. pol. Friederike Seifert


03/2017-02/2020

Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation

Seifert., F. (2022): Regional Disparities in the 21st-Century USA (Three Essays in Empirical Regional Economics). Available online 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

Seifert, F. (2022). The Income-Inequality Relationship within US Metropolitan Areas 1980-2016. Regional Research - Journal of Regional Research, 53 , 67-90. DOI https://doi.org/10.38191/iirr-jorr.22.011

Seifert, F. (2022). The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion and interstate migration in border regions of US States. Rev Reg Res 42, 49–74. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-022-00165-2

Dr.-Ing. Nikita Sharma


03/2018-06/2021

Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation

Sharma, N. (2022). Urban Governance, Urbanization and Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management: A Case of Kathmandu, Nepal, available online 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. rer. nat. Jiyoon Song


03/2019-02/2022
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Song, J. (2023): Integration of climate measures into urban regeneration, using the case of Seoul, available online 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. rer. pol. Kristin Stechemesser


04/2010-06/2012
Associate member to the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation (cumulative)
Stechemesser, K. (2015):Interdependence between the Natural Environment and Organizations - The Case of Climate Change, Hochschulschriften Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden.

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

Dr. rer. pol. Thomas Topf


01/2010-03/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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, Dr Kovac, Hamburg.

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

Dr. phil. Katharina Ulbrich


01/2008-03/2011
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS)

Dissertation
Ulbrich, K. (2011): Familiale Generationenbeziehungen und der Übergang in die Elternschaft. Eine qualitativ kulturvergleichende Studie, available on line 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. Jennifer Washco


01/2010 - 03/2013
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Washco, J. (2016): The community and neighborhood impacts of local foreclosure responses: A case study of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, available on line 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. Elena Wiezorek


01/2008-03/2011
scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

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, Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin.

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

Dr. phil. Amsalu Woldie Yalew


03/2014-02/2017
Scholarship holder at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School

Dissertation
Yalew, A. W. (2017): Economic Development under Climate Change: Econonomy-wide and Regional Analysis for Ethiopia. Available at SLUB: http://katalogbeta.slub-dresden.de/id/0019144176/#detail

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

Amsalu Woldie Yalew, Georg Hirte, Hermann Lotze-Campen & Stefan Tscharaktschiew (2018).Climate Change, Agriculture, and Economic Development in Ethiopia,Sustainability, 10 (10), 3464; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103464

Amsalu Woldie Yalew, Georg Hirte, Hermann Lotze-Campen & Stefan Tscharaktschiew (2019).The Synergies and Trade-Offs of Planned Adaptation in Agriculture: a General Equilibrium Analysis for Ethiopia, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change,volume 3, pp. 213–233.