Andreas Koch - CV
Date of birth: October 9th, 1965
Place of birth: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Education
1988 – 1993 Study of Geography, Political Science and Spatial Planning at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
1993 Graduation: Diploma in Geography
Thesis: Kriterien und Motive der Suburbanisierung im Wandel – eine bevölkerungsgeographische Analyse im östlichen Umland von München (Change of criteria and motives of suburbanization – a population geographical analysis of the Eastern Munich suburban area).
1993 – 1996 Doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH).
Thesis: Electronic Banking im Privatkundengeschäft: Eine system- und chaostheoretisch orientierte Untersuchung zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeographie der Finanzdienstleistungen – Das Fallbeispiel "Euregio Maas-Rhein" (Private Electronic Banking: a system and chaos theoretically inspired investigation of the social and economic geography of financial services – a case study of the "Euregio Maas-Rhine")
1996 Graduation: Dr. phil.
1997 – 2004 Habilitation at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH)
Title of the habilitation: Dynamische Kommunikationsräume. Ein systemtheoretischer Raumentwurf (Dynamic spaces of communications.
A system theoretical approach of space).
2004 Venia Docendi for Geography
Professional career
1993 – 2002 Faculty member: Institute of Geography at RWTH Aachen
2000 – 2001 Research assistant: Department of Economic Geography and Geoinformatics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
2002 – 2007 Professor for Applied Geography and Geoinformatics: Department of Geosciences, University of Munich
2007 – Professor for Human Geography: University of Salzburg
2007 Guest Professor: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
2009 Guest Professor: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
2009 Lecturer, Department of Informatics, Royal Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria (CEEPUS)
Administrative activities
· Member of the PhD commission of the faculty of natural sciences, University of Salzburg
· Deputy member of the senate, University of Salzburg
· Member of appointments commissions (two as external, two as chair) in Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Augsburg
Memberships and scientific activities
· AAG Association of American Geographers
· ESSA European Social Simulation Association
· Executive board of Wissenschaftsagentur at University of Salzburg
· Executive board (co-opted) of SIR - Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen
· Steering Committee of Commission “Geography of the Global Information Society”
· Scientific committee of "Netcom"(IGU Commission Journal)
· Association of German Geographers (VGDH)
· Chair of the Scientific Board of Round Table GIS (Runder Tisch GIS e.V.) at Technical University of Munich
· Scientific committee of Round Table GIS for the geoinformatics award (“Förderpreis Geoinformatik”)
· Vice President of ifz – international research center for social and ethical issues (internationales forschungszentrum für soziale und ethische fragen) at
University of Salzburg
· Deputy Chairmen of ZEA – Center for Ethics and Poverty Research (Zentrum für Ethik und Armutsforschung) at University of Salzburg
· Scientific committee of AGIT, Salzburg
· Reviewer for Erdkunde, International Geographical Information Science, Journal for Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), Computers,
Environment and Urban Systems
· German Work Group "Communications and Telecommunications"
· German Work Group "Theory and Quantitative Methods in Geography"
External Teaching
· Two days “Introduction into Spatial Statistics” (Round Table GIS, Munich), 2007-2010
· Two days “Introduction into Spatial Statistics” (Z_GIS), 2008-2009
· Two days “Introduction into Agent Based Spatial Modeling” (Round Table GIS, Munich), 2012
· Modul Supervision “Geostatistics” for UNI_GIS since 2008