Employment History

• Since 2010
  Head of Institute for Social Planning and Urban Development, University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland, School of Social Work; Member of the board of directors.
  Main fields: Research Management, Poverty Research, Urban Sustainable Development Research
• Since 2010
  Lecturer Institute of Geography, Dep. Human Geography, University of Basel Switzerland.
  Courses: Spatial Area Analysis, Theories of Space, Urban Social Geography.
• 1999 – 2009
  Senior researcher, project leader and lecturer, Institute for Social Planning and Urban Development, University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland.
  Main fields of study: Urban social development, theory of space, neighbourhood renewal programmes, quality of live, research on poverty and poverty alleviation programmes
• 1997 – 1999
  Research Assistant, Institute of Inter-Faculty Research on General Ecology IKAÖ, University of Berne (Berne, Switzerland, Prof. Dr. R. Kaufmann-Hayoz).
  Main fields of study: inter- and transdisciplinary research, evaluation criteria for sustainable oriented curricula
• 1995 – 1997
  Research Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, University of Basel (Switzerland, Prof. Dr. A. Cesana).
  Main fields of study: general propaedeutic for interdisciplinary curricula and courses
• 1993 – 1995
  Research Assistant and lecturer, Institute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany), Dep. Economic and Applied Geography (Prof. Dr. Peter Sedlacek).
  Main fields of study: Economies and social systems in transformation, quality of live (surveys and reports), theory of human geography
   

Education

• 2007 – 2009
  MAS in Spatial Planning, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH (Zürich, Switzerland)
  Main Fields of Study: Urban Sustainability, Smart Cities, Social Dimensions of Living; Certification Systems of Sustainability
• 2001 – 2004
  PhD, Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany) Topic: Young Urban Poor – acting under the conditions of individualization, life-style and urbanity. Summa cum laude, Pfizer dissertation prize 2005
• 1987 – 1993
  M.A. in Geography and Economics, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany) i.Br. (D), Main Fields of Study: Urban Social Geography, Development Economies, Property Rights Theory, Research Design (qualitative and quantitative)

Autor
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Publications

A complete list of Matthias Drillings publications can be found here.