Johannes Glückler - Biography#

Johannes Glückler is the chair professor of Economic Geographies of the Future at LMU Munich. His research focuses on the geography of knowledge, including the networks, institutions, and governance of innovation processes within and across regions and organizations. He also contributes to the understanding of the economic importance of cultural and educational institutions through analyses of regional economic impact assessments. After studying geography, psychology, and sociology at the Universities of Würzburg, Salamanca, and the London School of Economics and earning his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt, he became a Professor of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2006 - 2008). Subsequently, he was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the University of Heidelberg (2008 - 2023), where he worked in the field of the geography of knowledge and innovation and has became editor of the Springer book series “Knowledge & Space”. He was Senator, Faculty Dean, and Fellow of the Marsilius Center for Advanced Studies, until 2023. In addition to numerous international visiting professorships, including in Canada, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile, he was most recently Distinguished Harris Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, USA. He is a founding and board member of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet) and chairman of the advisory board of the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research in Berlin/Erkner. He is also co-founder of the international master's program Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile. In addition to basic research, he has consulted, among others, the OECD, federal, state and local authorities, as well as trade associations, business firms and civil society organizations.