Frauke Kraas - Curriculum vitae#
Education
- Geography, Biology, Ethnology und Philosophy at the universities of Bochum and Muenster, 1981-1987
- Doctorate 1991, University of Münster: "Die Rätoromanen Graubündens. Peripherisierung einer Minorität" (The Romansh in Graubünden. Peripheralization of a minority)
- Habilitation 1996, University of Bonn: "Entwicklungsdynamik und Regierbarkeit des Großraums Bangkok. Zur Bedeutung soziokultureller Einflußgrößen in der Megastadt" (Dynamics of development and governance of Greater Bangkok. On the importance of socio-cultural determining factors in the megacity)
Selected projects
- Spokesperson of the German Research Foundation (DFG) programme, “Mega-cities: Informal Dynamics of Global Transformation" (Priority Programme SPP 1233), regional focus: Pearl River Delta in China and Dhaka in Bangladesh, 2007 – 2013
- Research projects within Priority Programme SPP 1233 (in collaboration with international colleagues):
- Informal migrant communities and health strategies in urban villages of the Pearl River Delta/China. linking global change and urban health (KR 1764/8–1 and 8–2) and Patterns of migrant community formation in China's megaurban Pearl River Delta (PRD) – linking informal dynamics, governability and global change (KR 1764/8–3), 2007 – 2012
- Informal Dynamics of Agile Firm Organisation in the Greater Pearl River Delta (KR 1764/7–1) and Regional agility and upgrading and in Hong Kong and the PRD (KR 1764/11–1), and Regional agility in the wake of crisis: Towards a new growth model in the Greater Pearl River Delta (KR 1764/11–2), 2007 – 2013
- Priority Programme (SPP) coordination (KR 1764/9–1, 9–2, 9–3), 2007 – 2013
- Further Projects
- Coping with the Consequences of Cyclone Nargis in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta, Myanmar, since 2008
- Head of the DFG project on health disparities in the developing megacity of Pune, India (KR 1764/12–1), 2010 – 2012
- Head of research project on risk analysis and the prevention of crises and catastrophes in megacities: coastal cities of Mumbai, India and Jakarta, Indonesia (Federal Ministry), 2009 – 2011
- Land Use Change Dynamics in Yangon, Myanmar, since 2007
- Head of the Alumni and Expert Network Forum – Forum for Urban Future in Southeast Asia, collaboration with colleagues from Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, East Timor, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 2005 – 2011
- Head of research project on resource supply in the megacity of Yangon, Myanmar, in coordination with Yangon University, since 2003
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
- Editor of the series, Southeast Asian Modernities (Lit Verlag, since 2004) and Megacities and Global Change (Steiner Verlag, since 2010, in charge)
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, since 2009
- President of the German–Thai Society (DTG), since 2009
- Expert on the geography review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2008
- Scientific advisor to the Christine Nüsslein Volhard Foundation, since 2008
- Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, since 2007
- Juror since 2006 and spokesperson since 2007 in the federal jury for geo- and space sciences in the “Youth research” competition
- Member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Erdkunde (Geography), since 2006
- Member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Senate Commission for Geoscience Research (Geocommission), since 2005
- Member of the National Committee for Global Change Research (NKGCF), German Research Foundation (DFG) and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), since 2005
- Member of the selection committee for the Alumni Program (German Foreign Office, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/BMZ) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), since 2005
- Co-spokesperson for the working group, “Geographical city research in developmental context,” German Society for Geography (DGfG), since 2005
- Member of the Academia Europea, since 2004
- Vice president of the GeoUnion – Alfred Wegener Foundation, since 2004
- Chair of the organisational committee of the International Geographical Congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU) in Cologne 2012, since 2004
- Member of the selection committee for the German Graduates Overseas and Students (degree theses) Go Abroad programs from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), since 2002
- Corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Finland, since 2001
- Chair of the MegaCity Task Force of the International Geographical Union (IGU), since 2000
- Individual reports for universities abroad: Guangzhou, Helsinki, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Singapore, Yangon, since 2000
- Peer review activities: German Research Foundation, European Union, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) funding for the promotion of scientific research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Swiss National Fund, Volkswagen Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, since 1999
- Spokesperson for the Southeast Asia working group, German Society for Geography (DGfG), since 1996
- Co-chair of the GEO office in Bonn, and of the federal office of the Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH), since 1991
- Editor of Thailand-Rundschau (Thailand review), since 1991
