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Oliver Ibert

In July 2019 Oliver Ibert took over the position of the director of the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and was appointed as Professor of Socio-Spatial Transformation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.

From 2009-2019 he was professor of Economic Geography at the Freie Universität Berlin.  In 1997 he obtained his master’s in Geography (major), German Literature and Political Sciences (both minor) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In 2002 he acquired his PhD at the University of Oldenburg and in 2009 he completed his post-doctoral habilitation thesis at the University of Bonn.

In summer 2014 Oliver Ibert was a visiting professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Toronto and in autumn 2018 he was a Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography at Manchester University. He is a member of the editorial board of "Spatial Research and Planning" and acts as a spokesperson of the working group “Concepts of Crisis” as a part of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Crises in a globalized world”.