Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Leibenath

Since 2020

Professor for Landscape Planning and Communication at the University of Kassel     

2017-2019

Lecturer (“Privatdozent”) at Technische Universität Berlin

2015

Postdoctoral qualification (“Habilitation”) in Landscape Development at Technische Universität Berlin

2000-2020

Research associate and principle investigator at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden, Germany

2000-2014

Lecturer at Technische Universität Dresden     

2000

PhD Graduation at Technische Universität Berlin          

1997-1999

PhD student at Technische Universität Berlin, funded by a scholarship of The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

1994-1996

Landscape planner in private planning firms

1988-1994

Landscape architecture and ecology at the Technical University of Munich, including two semesters as Special Student at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in Cambridge (Mass.)        

1987-1988

Military service

1985-1987

Completed apprenticeship in landscape gardening

• Founder and one of two co-ordinators of the Arbeitskreis Landschaftsforschung, a Landscape Research Network         
• Elected member of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft (LAG) Hessen/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Saarland of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association 
• Landscape Research Group (LRG)
• Alumni-Club Landschaft TU München
• Federal Association of Professional Conservationists (BBN), working group on Landscape Planning

Complete list of publications on Google Scholar