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Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Verena Radinger-Peer

Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
Peter-Jordan-Straße 65/SIMH-DG/10, 1180 Wien
verena.radinger-peer(at)boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85314

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ORCID: 0000-0001-6030-3300

Curr. Vitae

2023 - Tenure Track Professorship (§99Abs.5) Sustainable Landscape Development, Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN), BOKU
2018 - 2018 Visiting researcher at the CHEPS Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences (BMS), University of Twente (The Netherlands)
2017 - 2017 Visiting Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Competence Center Policy - Industry - Innovation
2017 - FWF-Hertha Firnberg Grant holder
2014 - 2017 Post-Doc Researcher and MBA Program Manager at the Department of Public Governance and Sustainable Development, MODUL University Vienna
2013 - 2013 PhD, Dr. nat.techn., University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
2013 - Post-doc at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development
2009 - 2013 University assistant at the Institute of Spatial Planning and Rural Development
2007 - 2009 Employee in the planning office 'Beitl ZT GmbH'
2006 - 2006 Joint Study semester on the Purdue University, Indiana (USA)
2002 - 2007 "Landscape Architecture and Planning", University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Statistik Austria, science classification

regional planning; Regional development planning ; geographic information systems (GIS); landscape planning;

Expertise

regional planning, development and research; spatial planning; Regional and spatial impacts of Higher Education Infrastructure; regional sustainability transformation; "The Role of Universities in Regional Transitions towards Sustainability"; Transdisciplinary research;

Awards

2015 FWF-Hertha Firnberg Stipendium
2014 Wirtschaftskammerpreis 2014 der Wirtschaftskammer Wien
2013 "Award of Excellence" des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung für herausragende Dissertationen
2013 BOKU Best Paper Award des Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien für die Publikation „Universities as change agents for sustainability - framing the role of knowledge transfer and generation in regional development processes"
2010 Mentoring-Programm von ARL und FRU
2008 BISi - Bildungs- und Innovationsfond Steirisches Vulkanland
2008 Würdigungspreis des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2023 - AG BNE -Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung der Universität für Bodenkultur
member
2022 - CCCA AG Sozial-ökologische Transformation
member
2022 - Fach-AG Weiterbildung der Universität für Bodenkultur
member
2019 - Regional Studies Assocation (RSA) Ambassador to Austria
elected member
2016 - Regional Studies Association (RSA)
member
2016 - EAIR - The European Higher Education Society
member
2014 - ARL Working Group "Universities and sustainable Development"
full member
2013 - AESOP - YA Conversations in Planning Editorial Team
full member
2012 -2013 AESOP - Young Academics
Chief Executive Officer
2011 -2012 AESOP - Young Academics
member of the commisson
2009 -2010 AESOP - Young academics
member
2009 -2012 Junges Forum der ARL
member

Editorial board appointments for scientific journals

2023 -2024 Review of Regional Research: The changing role of universities in the context of regional sustainability transformation
Guest Editor (Special Issue)
2020 -2021 Sustainability: "The Role of Universities in Regional Transitions towards Sustainability"
Guest Editor (Special Issue)

Reviewer for scientific journals

2022 - International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
2022 - Raumforschung und Raumordnung
2021 - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2021 - Water
2021 - Education Sciences
2019 - GAIA. Ökologische Perspektiven für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
2019 - Regional Studies
2019 - Studies in Higher Education
2018 - Review of Regional Research
2018 - Sustainability
2013 - International Regional Science Review
2013 - Journal of Rural Studies

Organizer of scientific conferences, Chairs

2024 24. Österreichischer Klimatag
Reviewer
2023 Special Session "Sustainability and Higher Education" , EAIR annual conference
Member of the Organisation Committee
2023 Klimawandelanpassung in Gemeinden - geht da (noch) was? Veranstaltungsreihe BOKU Energiecluster
Organiser
2018 Special Session "Higher Education Institutions and regional (sustainable) development"
Member of the Organisation Committee
2013 Interdisziplinäre Lehrveranstaltung "Ökologische Aspekte im Planen und Bauen" - Arbeitsgruppe Regionalplanung
Member of the Organisation Committee
2013 7th AESOP YA Meeting: "Resilience - Rethinking sustainability in urban planning and rural development from a social, ecological and economic perspective"
Organiser
2013 AESOP-IFHP Lecture Series, Lecture 5 : Juval Portugali, The Future is Not What It Used to Be: Complexity, Cognition and the City
Member of the Organisation Committee
2012 6th AESOP Young Academics Meeting: "Communication & Planning - Goals, Challenges and Possibilities"
Organiser
2012 Interdisziplinäre Lehrveranstaltung "Ökologische Aspekte im Planen und Bauen" - Arbeitsgruppe Regionalplanung
Member of the Organisation Committee
2012 AESOP Teaching Prize 2012 „Local responses to Global Changes: New Approaches to Planning Education“
Member of the Organisation Committee
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