Dr. rer. nat. Kerstin Schäfer

Dissertation at the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geographie at Leibniz University Hannover with research visits at Fraunhofer Institute for Systems und Innovation Research ISI Karlsruhe, University of California Los Angeles and Universiteit Utrecht.

Studies of Economic Geography (M. Sc.) at Justus Liebig University Giessen and University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD Thesis
Competitiveness through R&D internationalization: patent- and interview data based studies on a latecomer in the telecommunications industry.

Master thesis
Research and development internationalization of chinese multinational companies – the ase study of Huawei in Germany

2021 – 2022:
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

Since 2016:
Research fellow in Economic Geography at Leibniz Universität Hannover

2014 - 2016:
Research fellow in Economic Geography at JLU Gießen

2011 - 2014:
Studente assistant in Urban Planning and Economic Geography at JLU Gießen

• Regional Studies Association (RSA)
• Transport Geography Research Group (TGRG)
• The Leibniz Research Centre 'TRUST - Transdisciplinary Rural and Urban Spatial Transformation'
• Interdisciplinary Institute for Automated Systems e.V. (RifaS)
• Association for Geography at germanspeaking universities and research institutes (VGDH)