Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler

Johannes Glückler is the chair professor of Economic Geographies of the Future and Head of the Economic Geography Group at LMU Munich. His research focuses on the geography of knowledge, including the networks, institutions, and governance of innovation processes within and across regions and organizations. He also contributes to the understanding of the economic importance of cultural and educational institutions with regional economic impact analyses.

Education and professional experience
After studying geography, psychology, and sociology at the Universities of Würzburg, Salamanca, and the London School of Economics, he earned his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt. He was appointed a Professor of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2006-2008), before he became the Chair Professor of Economic and Social Geography at Heidelberg University (2008-2023), where he was Senator, Faculty Dean, Institute Director, and Fellow of the Marsilius Center for Advanced Studies. In addition to numerous international visiting professorships, including in Canada, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile, he was most recently Distinguished Harris Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, USA.

Other profesional activities and services
Johannes Glückler is an elected member of the Academia Europaea, of the Advisory Board of the Harris Program at Dartmouth College (USA), a founding member and board member of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet) and he was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research in Berlin/Erkner. He is also editor of the renowned Springer book series Knowledge & Space and co-founder of the international Master's program Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile. Johannes Glückler is also a member of the scientific committees of the Global Conference on Economic Geography, the Sunbelt Conference on Social Network Analysis and the first international conference on economic geography 2024 of the Asociación Española de Geografía (AGE).In addition to basic research, he advises the OECD, federal, state and local authorities as well as business associations, companies and civil society organizations on issues of innovation, regional development and politics.

Publications

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