Hermann Kreutzmann

Hermann Kreutzmann has been chair of Human Geography and director of the Centre for Development Studies and the Institute of Geographic Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2005. Previously, he held the chair of Cultural Geography and Development Studies, and was director of the Institute of Geography at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1996. He studied physics, geography and anthropology at the universities of Hannover and Freiburg/Brsg., and received his Dr. rer. nat. in 1989 from the Freie Universität Berlin. He went on to act as the field director of the DFG-funded special research programme "Culture Area Karakorum". He was awarded a postdoctoral habilitation degree from Bonn University in 1994 and a visiting professorship at the Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1995. He received a Heisenberg Fellowship in 1995 and was awarded the Tianshan Prize China in 2010. Mr Kreutzmann has conducted empirical research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Tibet and Xinjiang since 1977, spanning a fieldwork period of nearly a decade and resulting in about 200 publications including two monographs, 12 co-edited books and 90 journal articles. He also carried out assessments of relief projects in Kashmir and Sindh for the German Red Cross in cooperation with the ICRC and the Pakistan Red Crescent Society.