Martina Blank has been Professor of Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Klagenfurt since September 2025 and joined the City Science Lab in January 2026. Previously, she held a visiting professorship in Frankfurt am Main and served as interim professor in Hamburg. She completed her habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt on spaces of asylum and earned her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on social movements in Argentina. Between these academic positions, she led a non-governmental organization in the field of development policy and headed an administrative unit of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
>> In her research, Martina Blank focuses on processes of societal transformation from a spatial perspective. She is currently working with her research group on a project that examines, using the case of Carinthia, how climate change is experienced in everyday life and negotiated in local encounters between humans and the environment. Methodologically, she works primarily with qualitative approaches and conducts research in close collaboration with civil society, public administration, and politics.