Prof. Dr. Matthias Drilling

    Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

    • Studied geography, economics and business administration
    • MAS Spatial Planning ETH / SIA
    • MAS Leadership & Management IAP / ZHAW

    Main focus

    • Universities as pluralistic organisations, leadership and multirational leadership
    • Professionalisation of social work in the context of urban development, social sustainability
    • Poverty of young adults, homelessness

    Further information

    • Member of the Swiss Society for Social Work, Swiss Engineers and Architects Association SIA, German Society for Geography
    • Expert for Swiss National Science Foundation (Dept. 1, SCOPE, Graduate Funding), German Research Foundation (Excellence Cluster, Individual Funding), Project Fund Innovedum of ETH Zurich, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (Postdoc Programme), Research Commission of Lower Saxony, Examination Group Humanities and Social Sciences of the German Research Foundation (Collaborative Research Centres).
    • Editorial Board Urban Planning (cogitation press Lisbon), Board of Reviewers in Sociology and Anthropology/Horizon Publ. USA
    • Speaker in the working group “Neighbourhood research” in the German Society for Geography
    • Review activities for professional journals, including Regional Studies (NL), Europa Region-al/Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography (DE), Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (PL), Geographica Helvetica (CH)
    • Mandates, e.g. Member of the Commission “Sustainable Building” (112-1) of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects SIA, Curator of the Carl Richard Montag Foundation Group Bonn (2013-2016)

    Publications and projects