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Dr. Dennis Fila

Research Associate
E-Mail: dennis.fila[at]geographie.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: ++49(0)761 203-54302
Room: 101

 

Research and Teaching Focus Areas

  • Climate change adaption
  • Heat governance and action planning
  • (Critical) transdisciplinary research approaches
  • Political ecology and environmental justice
  • Theories of power and participation
  • Urban and regional planning, festivalization, and large-scale events
  • Qualitative methods in social research

Regional Focus Areas

  • Baden-Württemberg and Germany
  • Eastern Europe (especially Poland)
  • North America (especially the USA)
  • Australia

Vita

  • Since 04/2020
   Resarch Associate, Chair of Geography of Global Change, Institute of Human Geography and Environmental Social Sciences, University of Freiburg
  • 05/2025
   Dissertation (Dr. phil.) “Building reflexive capacity: institutions, participation, and power in municipal climate change adaptation in Baden-Württemberg”
  • 02/2025 – 03/2025 and 02/2024 – 04/2024
   DAAD-funded research stay, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (Climate Change Adaptation Lab, led by Prof. Dr. Lauren Rickards), as part of the project “Adaptation Capacity and Action: Sub-national Government Responses to Climate Change Action”
  • 07/2019 – 03/2020
   City Planner, Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Protection, City of Braunschweig
  • 10/2017 – 12/2019
   M.A. in Urban Geographies – Human Geography, Humboldt-University Berlin
  • 01/2019 – 04/2019
   Research stay as Junior Specialist, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, School of Social Ecology (Prof. Dr. Scott Bollens), University of California, Irvine (USA)
  • 08/2018 – 12/2018
   Erasmus semester, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (Norway)
  • 10/2013 – 02/2017
   B.A. in Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main