About the Graduate School

Management

The Graduate School is directed by the Institute Director, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müller-Böker. The Graduate School is run on a day to day basis by the Coordinator, Dr. Ross Purves, who should typically be your first point of contact, whilst Paolo Psarellis (mail) provides secretarial support.

Advisory Board

An Advisory Board provides input on all matters relating to the curriculum and running of the Graduate School. This board consists of one Professor and one Phd student from each of the three core disciplines (Human, Physical and Methodological Geography) within the department. The Advisory Board meets at least once per semester.

Current Advisory Board members are (in alphabetic order):

Prof. Sara Fabrikant, Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis

Prof. Benedikt Korf, Political Geography

Reik Leiterer, GIScience and Remote Sensing

Martina Locher, Human Geography

Yvonne Schaub, Physical Geography

Prof. Michael Schmidt, Soil Science and Biogeography