Dr. Max Roessler
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Raum: 121, EG
Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 17a
D-17487 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 4514
E-Mail: max.roessleruni-greifswaldde
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Arbeitsschwerpunkte
- Wirtschafts- und Industriepolitik
- Innovations- und Transformationsprozesse
- Multinationale Unternehmen und ausländische Direktinvestitionen
- Qualitative Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung
Mitgliedschaften
Akademischer Werdegang
| Seit 04/2022 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie, Universität Greifswald |
| 2025 | Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Universität Greifswald |
| 09/2025 | Gastaufenthalt an der Universität Wien, Österreich |
| 02-03/2025 | Gastaufenthalt am Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in Utrecht, Niederlande |
| 09-11/2023 | Gastaufenthalt am Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) in Lund, Schweden |
| 2022 | M.Sc. Regionalentwicklung, Universität Greifswald |
| 2020-2022 | Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Universität Greifswald |
| 2018-2019 | Projektkoordinator nachhaltige Entwicklung (Fundación Cerro Verde) in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| 2018 | B.Sc. Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2016-2018 | Studentische Hilfskraft, Freie Universität Berlin |
Forschungsprojekte
Publikationen, Konferenzbeiträge und Gutachtertätigkeiten
Publikationen in wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften
- Roessler, M. (2025). Unlocking green transitions: system-level agency in peripheral regions. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaf044
- Roessler, M., Grillitsch, M., Miörner, J., Schiller, D. (2025). Shaping opportunity spaces: the role of narratives in place leadership. Regional Studies, 59(1).
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2471541
- Roessler, M., Prenzel, P., Schiller, D. (2025). Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 18(2), 309–323.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae045
- Roessler, M. (2024). Untangling regional development traps through narratives. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 11(1), 406-418.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2024.2373176
Monographien
- Roessler, M. (2025). Opportunity Spaces and Development Traps of Green Transitions in Peripheral Regions: Narratives, Place Leadership, and System-Level Agency. [Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Geography and Geology] University of Greifswald.
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-140506
Workshops, Webinare und Konferenzbeiträge
- 01/2026 Jena Talks in Economic Geography (JTalks) in Jena, Germany
Presentation: Möglichkeitsräume grüner Transformation in peripheren Regionen - 12/2025 Transforming Peripheries Workshop in Lübben, Germany
Presentation: Opportunity Spaces and Development Traps of Green Transitions in Peripheral Regions - 11/2025 Annual Economic Geography Workshop in Naurod-Niedernhausen, Germany
Presentation: Striving for technological sovereignty through megaprojects: Different approaches in the semiconductor industry of Germany, Japan, and the US - 08/2025 Young Economic Geographers Network (YEGN) Workshop in Greifswald, Germany (Organised with Amrei Aubrunner)
- 07/2025 ERSA Summer School in Dresden, Germany
Guest Lecture: Local agency in peripheral regions: Development traps and opportunity spaces for green transitions - 06-11/2025 YSI-RSA Webinar Series on ‘Regional Inequalities and Perceived Left-Behindness’ (Organised with Crhistian Joel González-Cuatianquis)
Webinars: Subjective well-being and regional inequalities (by Paolo Veneri), Spatial imaginaries of ‘left behind places’in policy discourse (by Grete Gansauer), Electoral outcomes as form of discontent (by Arndt Leininger), Policy, perception and place: rethinking regional development strategies (by Malin Roiha & Emma Fábrega) - 05/2025 Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association in Porto, Portugal
Presentation: Unlocking green transitions: system-level agency in peripheral regions
Special Session: Regional Inequalities and Perceived Left-Behindness (Organised with Crhistian Joel González-Cuatianquis and Stefania Fiorentino)
Special Session: Grasping the Ideational Dimension: The Importance of Narratives, Visions and Imaginaries for Regional Development (Organised with Franziska Görmar and Maximilian Benner) - 03/2025 North German Colloquium in Economic Geography in Greifswald, Germany
Presentation: Local agency in peripheral regions: Development traps and opportunity spaces for green transitions - 02/2025 Research Talk at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in Utrecht, Netherlands
Presentation: Local agency in peripheral regions: Development traps and opportunity spaces for green transitions - 09/2024 RSA Student and Early Career Conference in Cambridge, England
Presentation: Untangling regional development traps through narratives - 06/2024 Young Economic Geographers Network (YEGN) Workshop in Umeå, Sweden
Presentation: Untangling regional development traps through narratives - 06/2024 Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association in Florence, Italy
Presentation: Untangling regional development traps through narratives - 01/2024 Geography of Innovation Conference in Manchester, England
Presentation: Actor constellations and agency in relational peripheral regions - 11/2023 Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) Research Talk in Lund, Sweden
Presentation: Untangling regional opportunity spaces: The role of narratives and place leadership - 10/2023 Centre for International Business Studies/Centre for Regional Analysis Seminar in Gothenburg, Sweden
Presentation: Untangling regional opportunity spaces: The role of narratives and place leadership - 09/2023 Regional Innovation Policy Conference in Jönköping, Sweden
Presentation: Untangling regional opportunity spaces: The role of narratives and place leadership - 06/2023 Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Presentation: Actor constellations and agency in relational peripheral regions - 05/2023 Regional Studies Association Summer College in L’Aquila, Italy
- 02/2023 Winter School in Advanced Qualitative Methodology and Theorizing in Economic Geography in Bern, Switzerland
Presentation: The significance of change agency for innovation and transformation in relationally peripheral regions - 12/2022 EU-Commissioner’s Seminar Series on Cohesion Policy in Brussels, Belgium
Presentation: The significance of change agency for innovation and transformation in relationally peripheral regions - 11/2022 Annual Conference of the Industrial Geography Working Group in Naurod-Niedernhausen, Germany
Presentation: Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg - 10/2022 Annual Conference of the Hungarian Regional Studies Association (HRSA) in Budapest, Hungary
Presentation: Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg - 09/2022 Regional Studies Association Central and Eastern Europe Conference in Leipzig, Germany
Presentation: Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg
Reviewer- und Gutachtertätigkeiten
- Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (CJRES)
- European Planning Studies
- Review of Regional Research (JFRE)
- Progress in Economic Geography (PEG)
- AREA (Royal Geographical Society with IBG)
Auszeichnungen
Lehre
- 5318006 Studienprojekt mit Geländepraktikum [M.Sc. Regionalentwicklung]
- Der Einfluss von Offshore-Windparks auf die regionale Wirtschaft an Beispielen im Ostseeraum
(Staatsexamen Lehramt von A. Meyer, 2026) - Nachhaltige Einzelhandelsentwicklung in Innenstädten vor dem Hintergrund der Digitalisierung: Möglichkeiten und Differenzen am Beispiel Greifswald
(Bachelorarbeit von T. Otto, 2025) - Upgrading in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten am Beispiel der pharmazeutischen Industrie in Indien
(Staatsexamen Lehramt von E. Lindner, 2025) - Die Etablierung neuer Fußball-Ligen im globalen Markt am Beispiel der Saudi Professional League
(Staatsexamen Lehramt von N. Schulze, 2024) - Legitimierung regionaler Transformationsprozesse des Energiesystems am Beispiel von Wasserstoffstrategien im nordwestlichen Niedersachsen
(Masterarbeit von J. Greiwe, 2024) - Regional Development Traps: Eine qualitative Analyse anhand des Vergleichs zweier Fallstudienregionen in Deutschland
(Bachelorarbeit von E. Jarchow, 2024) - Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal: Auswirkung externer Impulse auf die regionale Entwicklung
(Staatsexamen Lehramt von N. Kalkum, 2024) - Zielkonflikte zwischen Standortpolitik und Umweltauflagen am Beispiel der Tesla-Ansiedlung in Brandenburg
(Bachelorarbeit von C. Ambrée, 2023)