M.Sc. Alena Birnbaum

since 2022
Research assistant in the Department of Landscape Planning and Communication at the University of Kassel

Doctoral thesis topic: Planning and development of suburban areas from the perspective of land managers. A discourse and subjectification theory analysis using the example of the Filder plain near Stuttgart

2018-2022
Studies of human geography - spatial conflicts, spatial planning and spatial management (M. Sc.) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2018-2021
Student assistant in the research group Spatial Planning and Sustainability at the Institute of Geography at the University of Münster

2018
Internship at the Office for Environmental Protection, Department of Urban Climatology of the State Capital Stuttgart 

2015-2018
Study of Geography (B. Sc.) at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen including semester abroad at the Department of Geography, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest

2015-2017
Working student in the laboratory for organic petrology (LAOP), Tübingen, Germany

2014-2015 
Study of geosciences (B. Sc.) at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen for 2 semesters

• Hoinle, B., Birnbaum, A., & Lütke, P. (2025): Perspectives on Food in the Sustainable City. Urban Planning, 10.
• Leibenath, M., Gailing, L. & Birnbaum, A. (2024): Landscapes for Future - Landschaften und sozial-ökologische Transformationen. Wiesbaden: Springer.
• Birnbaum, A. & Lütke, P. (2023): Food and Governmentality in the Green City: The Case of German Food Policy Councils. Urban Planning, 8, 1, online first.