Lennart Fischer and Dr. Sebastian Losacker completed a five-week and one-week research stay in India, respectively.

Tim Becker and Dr. Sebastian Losacker spent about three and one week respectively at the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, China. During this time they worked closely with TRABBI guest researcher Prof. Dr. Yongmin Shang from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Dr. Sebastian Losacker attended the 63rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) in the Azores, Portugal, from August 26 to 30.

Dr. Sebastian Losacker was awarded the Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award for Research in Social Sciences, Economics and Law at the summer party of the Giessen Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Economics and Law (GGS) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Among other recognitions, he received the award for his research with the TRABBI junior research group.

Lennart Fischer attended the 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference in Oslo, Norway, from June 16-19, where he presented recent research on the collectivization of visions of a future bio-based construction sector in the session "The geography of sustainability transitions".

We are very pleased that Charlotte Lobensteiner will be joining our team as a research associate starting June 1, 2024.

From May 17 to 18, Tim Becker attended the European Bamboo Expo 2024 to gain in-depth insights into the bamboo industry and conduct short interviews with experts on the global market for bamboo building materials.

Lennart Fischer and Dr. Sebastian Losacker presented two current research papers on socio-technical imaginaries of a bio-based construction sector at the CIRUS Coffee Break on April 29.

Dr. Sebastian Losacker was invited by TRABBI guest researcher Prof. Dr. Yongmin Shang to give a talk at the Academic Salon of the Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (China).

Dr. Lukas Kriesch has published a tutorial entitled "Interactive choropleth maps with GeoPandas and Folium" that demonstrates the possibilities of processing and visualizing geospatial data using Python.