Gernot Grabher, HafenCity University Hamburg

Gernot Grabher is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics and member of the Graduate Training School Urban Future-Making: Professional Agency across Time and Scale at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU). Previously he held positions at the University of Konstanz, the University of Bonn, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) and King’s College London. He has been visiting fellow at Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Toronto, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Santa Fe Institute, the Copenhagen Business School and Zhejiang University. He has contributed to debates on the geographies and temporalities of innovation and decline; the role of networks in regional development and post-socialist transformations; the interdependencies of temporary and permanent organizing in project ecologies and the algorithmic governance of platforms and cities. He has been co-editor of the journal Economic Geography, the book series Regions and Cities (Routledge) as well as Perspectives in Metropolitan Research (Jovis). His work has appeared in journals like Organization Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Management Learning as well as Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum and the Journal of Economic Geography.