Education
1963-1967: Elementary school in Doorn (NL).
1967-1969: Elementary school in Den Helder (NL).
1969-1972: Secondary school in Den Helder (NL).
1972-1973: American High school in Rome (I).
1973-1976: High school in Doetinchem (NL).
1976-1983: Study of social and economic geography, State University of Groningen (NL).
1980-1981: Guest student at the Department of Geography of the University of Berne (CH).
1982-1983: Swiss Research Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (CH).
1987: PhD in Geography, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (CH).
1987-2003: Several courses on quantitative research methods at the Zentral Archiv für empirische Sozialforschung, Cologne and the Zentrum für Umfragen Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim Federal Republic of Germany, the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection.
1987-… Several courses on communication techniques, communication and building trust, working group leadership, negotiating techniques, presentation techniques, building teams and working groups, didactical methods, PhD supervision.
Occupations/Appointments
1982-1987: Research Assistant at the Department of Geography of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
1987-1988: Head of the Research Project on Spatial and Economic Development of the City of Zurich
1987-1991: Head of the Research Team for economic Geography and Head of the Research Project on Flexible Specialisation in Switzerland
1991-1992: Expert on methodological issues and Statistical Analysis for the Research Project on Environmental Action under Conditions of Uncertainty.
1991-1996: Head of the Research Project on the Role of Trust and Co-operation in Regional Development and Environmental Action.
1993-1997: Member of the Board of Directors of the Department of Geography of the ETH.
1994: Cofounder of ‘Komma’ consultancy for communication management and policy execution, Zurich.
1997: Examinator at the School for Higher Education in Management and Administration (HWV), Lucerne in the field of Environmental Management.
1997: Guest Researcher at the Department of Environmental Studies of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
1997-1998: Guest Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Salzburg, Austria.
1998: Visiting Professor at the Department of Urban Planning of the University of California in Los Angeles, USA
1998-2001: Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Geography, Faculty for Policy Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen.
1999-2022 Member of the Board of the Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research
2001-…: Full professor and Chair of the Department of Human Geography, Faculty for Management Sciences (formerly Policy Sciences), Radboud University Nijmegen.
1999-2001: Co-ordinator of the Faculty Research Programme on Spatial and Environmental Issues.
2002-2005: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Cicero, the centre for the learning and teaching of neighbouring languages in border regions, Maastricht.
2003-2022 Chairman of the Education Commission of the Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research.
2003-2004: Member of curriculum development commission for Research Master Programme of Faculty of Management Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen.
2003-2007: Member of Advisory Commission for Programme development of curriculum and research of Graduate School of Education, University of Nijmegen
2003, 2004, 2007: Visiting Professor at the University of Münster, Germany in the framework of Erasmus exchange programme
2003-2007: Member of Steering Group of Euregio Study Programme (ESPRO) for developing a ‘Europe’ Master-programme, financed by the INTERREG programme.
2005-2019 Member of Jury of Herta Macht Master Thesis Prize, Groningen.
2005-2006: Member of the College of Referees of the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO)
2008-2022 Member of the curatorial of the Extra-ordinary Professorship in Educational Geography on behalf of the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (KNAG) [Royal Dutch Geographical Society]
2008-2017 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ILS-Research (Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development), Dortmund, Germany.
2008-2012 Member of the European Working Group on Comparison of Spatial Planning Systems, of the Academy for Spatial Research and Spatial Planning (ARL, Hanover).
2008-2011 Member of the ‘Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft (LAG) Nordrhein-Westfalen’, of the Academy for Spatial Research and Spatial Planning (ARL, Hanover).
2008-2016 Chairman of the Dutch section of the International Geographical Union (IGU).
2009-2016 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty for Management Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen.
2013-2014 Research platform coordinator of the Institute for Management Research (IMR).
2022-… Coordinator of the special programme of the Faculty for Management Sciences and the Radboud Teaching and Learning Centre for support and advice for online and blended teaching.
Publications
See Publications under the heading of ‘Research’ on this website.
Teaching Programme Management
1998-2002 Director of the Human Geography track of the (pre-Bachelor–Master system) ‘Doctorandus’ programme in Human Geography and Spatial Planning and the Bachelor programme in Human Geography and Spatial Planning
2002-2022 Director of the Master Programme in Human Geography
2005-2007 Chairman of the joint curriculum commission for spatial planning, human geography and environmental politics.
2007-2020 Chairman of the joint examination board for spatial planning, human geography and environmental politics.
Editor
1998-2023 Member of the Editorial Board of the Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG) Journal for Economic and Social Geography
2021-… Scientific Advisory Board Member: Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning
Referee for
- Area
- Cities
- DisP – The Planning Review
- Environment and Planning A
- Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung | Forum Qualitative Social Research
- Geografiska Analer
- Geographica Helvetica
- Geopolitics
- Landscape Research
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Planning Practice Research
- Planning Theory
- Political Geography
- Regional Studies
- Social and Cultural Geography
- Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG) Journal for Economic and Social Geography
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Umweltforschung [Journal of Environmental Research]
Memberships
- Member of the Working Group for Structural Equation Modeling [Arbeitsgruppe Strukturgleichungsmodelle]
- Member of the Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, ARL [German Academy for Spatial Research and Spatial Planning]
- Plessner Gesellschaft [Plessner Association]
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- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds für Wissenschaftliche Forschung [Swiss National Research Foundation]
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) [Dutch National Research Foundation]
- European Science Foundation
- Many selection- or evaluation committees at different universities in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Luxemburg, Switzerland and England as well as for the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (KNAG) [Royal Dutch Geographical Society]