"I enjoy passing on my practical knowledge to students".

"The car continues to be an important means of transportation for many people. Others use buses and trains, ride their bikes to work or like to walk: In a city, different needs of road users come together. In order to meet them, good planning and design is required, in which the transport infrastructure is adapted to the urban space and thus to people's mobility cultures. This is exactly what my field is about. For the past year, I have been working as a professor in the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel, where I am responsible for the topic of integrated transport planning and mobility development.

Before my appointment at the University of Kassel, I co-managed the Hamburg-based urban and transport planning office orange edge, where I developed, among other things, plans for streetscape design, noise protection, cycle lanes and strategies for implementing new forms of urban mobility. Today, I enjoy passing on this practical knowledge to my students. Professional practice and application-oriented research are an essential part of my teaching. In addition to teaching the basics, students can further hone their conceptual skills in seminars and projects. One current seminar, for example, is about the creation of a bicycle traffic index and specifically the question of what potential cities have for bicycle traffic. In my view, mobility makes a city lively and interesting. Different landscapes, locations and population structures require different traffic solutions. Kassel is a good example of this: The city is centrally located in Germany and on important highway axes, and is a logistics hub. Heavy goods and car traffic therefore play an important role when considering the traffic situation. At the same time, the city also has densely built-up, mixed-use neighborhoods that offer good conditions for new urban mobility concepts. Traffic concepts must therefore always be developed in a spatially differentiated manner - otherwise they do not fit and cannot be implemented well.

In research, I deal with innovative and at the same time compatible streetscape design and implementation management. Other areas of research are in the fields of mobility management, digitalization, smart city and cycling planning. At the University of Kassel, I have a young team of employees at my side for this, who bring different methods and design tactics to the work."