Dr. Tim Kunkowski

Former Senior Researcher and Lecturer

  • Developement and Sustainability Research
  • Analysis of the Societal Relations to Nature
  • Questions of International Environmental Governance
  • Discourse Theory and Analyses of Cultural and Discoursive Hegemony
  • Aspects of Communication in Politics and Conflict Management

since 08/2017

Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policies at TUM

since 04/2020

Project LauBiOek "Laubholznutzung im Rahmen einer effizienten Bioökonomie. Entwicklung einer Entscheidungsmatrix für die zukünftige Laubholznutzung am Beispiel der Pilotregion Bayern" - Use of Hardwood as part of efficient bioeconomics. Developement of a decision matrix for Bavaria

04/2018 - 04/2019

Contribution to the conceptual advancement of the study program 'Sustainable Resource Management' (MSc.) at TUM

10/2016 - 07/2017

Teaching activities in the field of political science at University of Hamburg

04/2016 - 09/2016

Member of DFG International Graduate College of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and University of Tôkyô

02/2015 – 09/2015

Researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University of Lüneburg

10/2012 – 02/2015

Teaching activities in the field of political science at University of Hamburg

10/2008 – 03/2009

Operations manager for West Africa of HSS (Hanns Seidel foundation) in Accra, Ghana

10/2014 - 04/2018

Doctorate at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. phil.)

10/2004 – 09/2011

Study program political science and sociology at University of Hamburg (Dipl.-Pol.)

Wasser in der afrikanischen Entwicklungspolitik. in: Kompass Ausgabe 03 Jg. 2015, S. 20-21, Weltfriedensdienst e.V., Berlin. Artikel zu Defiziten in der afrikanischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Full text on mediaTUM

Demokratisierung von unten. in: Afrika Post Ausgabe 03 Jg. 2011, S. 45. Deutsche Afrika Stiftung e.V., Berlin. Artikel zu den demokratietheoretischen Implikationen des ghanaischen APRM