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Prof. Dr. Christian Hundt
Institute of Rural Economics
Bundesallee 6438116 Braunschweig
- Telephone
- +49 531 2570 1209 / +49 171 6821222
- christian.hundt@thuenen.de
Institute Director
Projects
Contact Person for
Finished projects
Work and research focus
- Entrepreneurship: determinants and impacts
- Knowledge-based growth and development
- Firms, clusters, and agglomeration effects
- Macroeconomic shocks and regional resilience
- Public finance, Financial and Fiscal policies at the regional level
Additional information
- Since 09/2025
Member of the Expert Council for Rural Development - since 03/2024
Co-lead of the German team of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - since 01/2022
Professor for Rural Economics at the Leibniz University of Hanover (Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography) - since 12/2021
Head of the Thünen Institute of Rural Economics - 05/2021-12/2021
Private Lecturer (PD) for Economic Geography at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Department of Geography) - 05/2021
Habilitation in (Economic) Geography (venia legendi), obtained at the Ruhr-University Bochum; Habilitation thesis: Stabilization and growth in challenging times - A multilevel perspective on regional economic resilience in Germany and Europe during and after the Great Recession; Habilitation lecture: The Corona Recession – Causes and the extent and effects of the crisis in Germany - 05/2019
Diploma (equivalent to Master) in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), obtained at the distance learning University of Hagen - 01/2018-04/2021
Lecturer for Economic Geography at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Department of Geography) - 01/2018-11/2021
Senior Researcher in the field of ‘Economy and Jobs’ at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies - 04/2016-12/2017
Senior Researcher and Lecturer in the field of Economic Geography at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Department of Geography) - 04/2014-03/2016
Deputy Professor (W2) for Urban, Regional, and International Economics at the TU Dortmund University (School of Spatial Planning) - 10/2012-09/2014
Lecturer for Microeconomics and Macroeconomics for Students of Teaching at the TU Dortmund University (Institute of Sociology) - 03/2012
Ph.D. in (Economic) Geography (Dr. rer. nat.), obtained at the Leibniz University of Hanover; Dissertation topic: Explaining new firm creation in Europe: A multilevel analysis based upon data of individuals, regions, and countries - 04/2011-03/2014
Senior Researcher and Lecturer (since 2012: Postdoc) in the field of Economic Geography at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Department of Geography) - 05/2009
Diploma (equivalent to Master) in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann), obtained at the distance learning University of Hagen - 06/2006-03/2011
Junior Researcher (Doctoral Candidate) and Lecturer in the field of Economic Geography at the Leibniz University of Hanover (Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography) - 05/2005
Diploma (equivalent to Master) in (Economic) Geography (Diplom-Geograph), obtained at the University of Cologne
- Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MoC) network of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
- Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung (GfR)
- European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
- Regional Studies Association (RSA)
- Expert Council for Rural Development
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
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