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Dr. Tim Kunkowski


Institute of Wood Research


Leuschnerstraße 91
21031 Hamburg-Bergedorf
Telephone
+49 531 2570 1504
Email
tim.kunkowski@thuenen.de

Research area 2: Bio-based resources and materials

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
     
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