Biography
Prof. Dr. phil., born 1968; Professor of Social Geography with a focus on population and migration research, Osnabrück University.
Studied geography, mathematics and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at University College London; 1st state examination in mathematics and geography (Sec. II/I, 1995); DFG scholarship holder in the graduate school "Migration in Modern Europe" at IMIS (1995-1998); doctorate at Osnabrück University (summa cum laude, 2001); research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2000-2007); habilitation (2006). Member since 2007, Executive Board since 2008, Director of IMIS from 1.10.2009 to 31.12.2020.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott
Osnabrück University
IMIS & Institute of Geography
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49069 Osnabrück
Office: 02/207
+49 541 969-4890 (IfG)
+49 541 969-4384 (IMIS)
Short bio
| 2020 | Appointment to the professorship of human geography (W3) at Heidelberg University (declined). |
| 2010 | Appointment to the professorship for cultural geography (W3), University of Bamberg (declined) |
| 2010 | Appointment to the professorship for urban and regional sociology (W3), University of Kassel (declined) |
| since 2010 | W3 Professor of Social Geography at Osnabrück University |
| since 2007 | W2 Professor of Social Geography at Osnabrück University |
| 2009-2020 | Director of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) |
| 2006 | Habilitation and venia legendi (geography), Goethe University Frankfurt/Main |
| 2001 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.), Osnabrück University |
| 1995-1998 | Scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group “Migration in Modern Europe” at IMIS |
| 1995 | First state examination (secondary levels II/I) in mathematics and geography, University of Bonn |
Selected functions & memberships
- Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre ›Produktion von Migration‹ (SFB 1604), since 2024.
- Head of the Institute of Geography, 2022-2025.
- Deputy Director of IMIS, since 2021.
- Co-Director of the Standing Committee Reflexivities in Migration Studies of the International Migration Research Network IMISCOE, since 2019.
- Scientific advisor to the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM e.V.) and deputy spokesperson for the DeZIM community since 2018.
- Co-spokesperson for the Migration Societies profile line at Osnabrück University, 2017-2021.
- Member of the Council for Migration (Rat für Migration) since 2014 (board member: 2016-2018).
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Otto Benecke Foundation, since 2012.
- Spokesperson of the IMIS Research Training Group “The Production of Migration”, 2015-2018.
- Founding member and co-spokesperson of the Working Group on Geographical Migration Research in the German Geographical Society (Arbeitskreis für Geographische Migrationsforschung), 2009-2020.