Biography
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Economic Geography |
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Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner |
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| Biography |
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Diplom-Geograph |
University of Hannover, 1996 |
| Dr. rer. nat. | University of Hannover, 2000 |
| Habilitation | University of Hannover, 2006 |
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| 1996 - 2001 | Research fellow at the University of Hannover, Department of Economic Geography |
| 2000 | Ph.D. in geography; dissertation on performance-based funding in higher education systems (cross-cultural comparison) |
| 2001 - 2002 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Hannover, Department of Economic Geography |
| 2002 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of “New Economic Geography” at the University of Hannover, Department of Economic Geography |
| 2006 |
Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) on foreign direct investment and knowledge-transfer to China at the example of high-tech industries in Shanghai and Beijing Postdoctoral exam / defence on the causes of and reactions to rural poverty in developing countries Inaugural lecture on the economic geography of globalization |
| Since 2007 | Full professor of geography at Justus-Liebig University Giessen |