Research

My Ph.D project investigates the role of social networks for knowledge spillovers. I aim to open and challenge the fashionable black box of local knowledge spillovers to shed light on concrete mechanisms of knowledge flows in personal networks at different spatial scales. I am currently conducting case studies on knowledge relations of high-tech firms in the Cambridge region using qualitative and quantitative methods.

More about my PhD research project: Knowledge Networks in the Cambridge IT Cluster

Furthermore, I have a long-standing interest in human-environment interrelationships, e.g. the question how human beings construct spaces and attach meaning to their environment.

My general academic interests:

  • Urban and regional economic development

  • Social networks, social capital, social inequality

  • Work and labour markets 

  • Production and diffusion of knowledge

  • Human-environment interrelationship

  • Philosophy and methodology of social science