Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser
Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser focuses on issues of human-environment interaction, landscape transformation and regional development processes in the high mountains of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His work stresses the importance of integrating environmental aspects and ecosystem dynamics into development processes, and building upon knowledge, adaptations, and managerial capabilities of local populations. He has also worked on vegetation patterns and floristic inventories. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Mountain Research and Development (since 2003) and Erdkunde (since 2015), the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mountain Science (since 2005) and has been appointed as Series Editor of the Book Series Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research published by Springer Academic Publishers (since 2009).Curriculum Vitae
since 2006 | Chair (W3), Department of Geography, South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg |
2010 | Offered professorship of Human Geography, University of Göttingen (declined) |
2004 | Professional replacement for chair (C4) (Prof. M. Winiger), Department of Geography at the University of Bonn |
2003 | Habilitation, University of Bonn |
2001 - 2003 | DFG habilitation fellowship, University of Bonn |
1997 - 2001 | Assistant Professor (C1) at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn |
1996 | PhD Geography, Freie Universität Berlin Dissertation:Nanga Parbat (NW-Himalaya): Naturräumliche Ressourcenausstattung und humanökologische Gefügemuster der Landnutzung |
1993 - 1995 | Doctoral Scholarship from the State of Berlin |
1987 - 1992 | Studies in Geography, Geology, Development Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin Diploma thesis:Landnutzungsgefüge im östlichen Aurès (Algerien). Eine Betrachtung der Grundlagen für eine ländliche Regionalentwicklung mit Methoden der Fernerkundung |
Academic Self-Administration, Heidelberg University
2009-2012 | Executive Director South Asia Institute |
2008-2011 | Member of the Steering Committee from the Excellence Cluster 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' |
2008-2010 | Dean of students for the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences |
Editorial Services
since 2009 | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (Series Editor) |
since 2015 | Erdkunde (Editorial Advisory Board) |
since 2005 | Journal of Mountain Science (Editorial Board) |
since 2003 | Mountain Research and Development (Editorial Advisory Board) |
Memberships in Professional Societies
since 2010 | Full member of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung (ARGE)" (Commission on Comparative High Mountain Research) |