Associated Member
Sandra Jasper is Professor of Geography and holds the Chair in Cultural Geography and Society-Environment Research at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
Between 2020 and 2024, she was a Junior Professor for Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a PhD from University College London (2015) and joined the Geography Department at HU in 2020 from Cambridge University, where she was a postdoctoral researcher for five years on the ERC project Rethinking Urban Nature.
Her research interests are in cultural, urban, and environmental geography with a particular focus on urban nature and biodiversity, wastelands and infrastructure, sonic geographies, and feminist theory. She is also a filmmaker and has co-authored and co-produced the documentary film Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin.
She is co-speaker of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Grand Challenge Exploration Project Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet. Her new AHRC-DFG funded project Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives is an international collaborative research project, which examines the history of European wildlife sound recording through seven archives located in Europe and South Africa.
Sandra is a member of IRI THESys since March 2021. She was deputy director of IRI THESys between April 2023 and December 2024.
Research Interests
- Cultural and environmental geography with an interest in wastelands and urban biodiversity
- The corporeal and multisensory experience of urban space with a particular interest in sound
- Gender and geography with a focus on intersectional approaches, environmental justice, old and new materialist and post-humanist perspectives
Publications
Sandra’s list of publications can be accessed on her personal webpage at FAU.
