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.

Bioökonomie.de has published an article on the regionalized dataset on bioeconomy companies in Germany generated by Dr. Lukas Kriesch and Dr. Sebastian Losacker as part of the project.

Dr. Sebastian Losacker organized a webinar of the Regional Studies Association entitled "Sustainability Transitions towards a Bioeconomy".

We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest paper by Dr. Sebastian Losacker and Dr. Lukas Kriesch entitled "Bioeconomy firms and where to find them"!

Dr. Sebastian Losacker spent two weeks at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L'Aquila, Italy. In addition to various publication projects with Sandro Montresor and Gloria Cicerone, he worked in particular with Francesca Mazzoni on a paper on the configuration of global innovation systems in the bio-based construction secto

Dr. Sebastian Losacker gave a presentation on geographical sequence analysis at the webinar "Capturing and Measuring Transformative Knowledge Capacities" of the Research Network on Transformative Knowledge Regions (TRAKR) of the Regional Studies Association.