Jannis Meyer, M.Sc.

Understanding why things are like they are and possibilities for sustainable development have always been really exciting to me. After completing my B.Sc. in City and Regional Planning, I studied the M.Sc. Urban Design at TU Berlin where I started working on questions relating to global urbanization.

My master thesis titled ‘Hydro-Sociality in Peri-Urban Transitions. The Case of Coimbatore, India’ investigated the intricate relationship between society, water, urbanization, power, and grassroots struggles and won the best thesis award within the study program for the year of 2025.

Since October 2025, I am a doctoral researcher in human geography and part of the DFG research group FOR5903 ‘Sustainable Rurbanity’ at University of Göttingen. Under the supervision of Prof. Christoph Dittrich and Prof. Uwe Altrock I investigate the social production of rurban space in Bengaluru, India.

Hereby, we build on approaches of social place-making as well as assemblage-theoretical and practice-theoretical ideas to advance the understanding of how rurbanity is constituted.