German, Danish, English

I am associate professor in urban and regional planning at IGN and member of the research groups Spatial Change and Planning and GIScience and Geodesign.

Research and teaching topics include spatial planning, sustainable urban development, resource and energy efficient cities, land use change, urban sprawl, functional regions, small towns, spatial analysis, digital planning.

I am always interested in good ideas for research and/or teaching collaborations. I am and have been involved in several national and international projects, including

• Regions4Climate (EU Horizon, 2023-2026)
• Sustainable urban densification (Realdania, 2022-2023)
• Small and medium-sized towns in Denmark (EU ESPON TOWN DK, 2022)
• Evaluating Spatial Planning Practices with Digital Plan Data (EU ESPON DIGIPLAN, 2020-2021)
• Urban metabolism and waste behaviour in touristic cities (EU-H2020 URBAN WASTE, 2016-2019)
• Regional strategies for sustainable and inclusive development (EU ESPON ReSSI,  2016-2017)
• Planning for smart and energy efficient cities (EU-FP7 PLEEC, 2013-2016)
• Challenges and prospects of Danish small towns (Realdania, 2012-2013)
• Land use scenarios for Greater Copenhagen (Centre for Strategic Urban Research, 2011).
• Peri-urban land use relationships (EU-FP6 PLUREL, 2007-2011)

I am currently co-supervising two PhD students: Mette Juhl Jessen working with climate adaptation and regional planning, and Junyu Hu working with e-biking in urban and rural areas. Previously I have co-supervised Tongyun Du working with social networks during urban renewal (finished 2021), Liang Xiao working with agriculture and migration in Southwest China (guest PhD 2019-2020), Lu Sun working with Bejing's green belts (paused) and Juliane Große working with travel behaviour and urban structure (finished in 2017).

I teach in several courses in the Landscape Architecture programme, primarily in "Byplan Studio" (Urban Planning Studio) with Gertrud Jørgensen, Lise Herslund, Trine Carstensen, Helle Tegner Anker and more. In research and teaching I enjoy collaborating with several good colleagues from different research groups and sections within IGN.

Feel free to contact me. I speak English, German and Danish. You can also find me on LinkedIn and ResearchGate or pass by my blog on landblend.wordpress.com (which is not that often updated anymore as it once was).

Below you can see an outline of professional employments since my degree.

Since Feb 2017
Associate professor at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
See a list of main research and teaching activities under general presentation.

Sep 2012 - Jan 2017
Assistant professor at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (former Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning), University of Copenhagen
See a list of main research and teaching activities under general presentation.

Sep 2007 - Aug 2012
PhD student at Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen
See a list of main research and teaching activities under general presentation.
- PhD project "Urbanisation, urban growth and planning" (2008-2012), supervised by Gertrud Jørgensen, Thomas Sick Nielsen and Stephan Pauleit.

April – Nov 2007
Research assistant for the project "Smart Cities: Ranking of European medium-sized cities" at the Centre of Regional Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

May – July 2007
Assistant for the Interreg III B project PolyDev at the Regional Environmental Centre in Bratislava, Slovakia

Sep – Nov 2006
Assistant for the EU-FP6 project MATISSE at the Institute of Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Aug – Sep 2006
Intern at the Department of Urban Planning, City of St. Pölten, Austria

June 2006
MSc in Urban and Regional Planning at TU Wien, Austria
- Thesis on cross-border co-operation in city-regions - Copenhagen-Malmö and Vienna-Bratislava

Ongoing:

• Co-responsible for bachelor course "Byplan Studio 1 & 2" (Urban Planning Studio, 30 ECTS, since 2016)
• Contribution to various courses including Plan & Design and Geographic Information Systems.
• Supervision of bachelor projects, master theses, projects in practice as well as PhD projects.

Former:

• Supervision in "By- og regionaludvikling" (Urban and regional development, 7.5 ECTS, 2019-2020)
• Co-responsible for bachelor course "Bypolitik" (Urban policies, 7.5 ECTS, 2008-2014)
• Contributions to "Byplananalyse" (Urban analysis) and "Byplanstrategi" (Urban planning strategies) and guest lectures in other courses