Dr. Tim Kunkowski
Institute of Wood Research
21031 Hamburg-Bergedorf
- Telephone
- +49 531 2570 1504
- tim.kunkowski@thuenen.de
Since 11/2025
Project coordinator at the Thünen Institute of Wood Research in the “WaHo_boost” project as part of the REGULUS funding initiative
06/2023 – 10/2025
Research assistant at the Technical University of Munich in the “WaHo_boost” project as part of the REGULUS funding initiative
08/2017 – 08/2022
Research assistant at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy at the Technical University of Munich
04/2020 – 08/2022
Project management LauBiOek “Hardwood utilization within the framework of an efficient bioeconomy. Development of a decision matrix for future hardwood utilization using the pilot region of Bavaria as an example”
04/2018 - 04/2019
Conceptual development of the international master's program “Sustainable Resource Management” at Technical University of Munich
10/2016 - 07/2017
Lecturer for Political Science at the University of Hamburg
04/2016 - 09/2016
Member of the DFG International Graduate School at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Tokyo
02/2015 – 09/2015
Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science and the Center for Democracy Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg
10/2012 – 02/2015
Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Hamburg (only during winter semester)
10/2008 – 03/2009
Program Coordinator for West Africa at the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation in Accra, Ghana
Education
10/2014 - 04/2018
Doctorate in Political Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. phil.)
Magna Cum Laude
Public defense: December 17, 2019
10/2004 – 09/2011
Political Science and Sociology at the University of Hamburg (Dipl.-Pol.)
Fields of activity
- development and sustainability research
- theory of the societal relations to nature
- international environmental governance
- discourse and hegemony analyses
- analysis of political communication and conflict management