Prof Christian SCHULZ

Christian Schulz is a Full Professor of European Sustainable Spatial Development and Analysis at the University of Luxembourg (since 2006). He is also Head of the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning.

He is an economic geographer who specialised on issues around environmental sustainability already in the 1990s. His current research foci are in the fields of socio-ecological transitions and the role of sufficiency-oriented practices. He recently co-edited an Open-Access anthology on post-growth geographies (Lange et al. 2022, transcript) and co-authored a textbook (in German) on the economic geographies of sustainability (Affolderbach/Schulz 2024, UTB).

Christian mainly teaches in the Master in Geography and Spatial Planning (MAGEO) as well as in the Formation Continue en Aménagement du Territoire (FCAT) and the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (DSHSS).

Christian Schulz is a member of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL).

Before joining the University of Luxembourg, he worked at Saarland University (Germany), University of Metz (today: University of Lorraine, France), University of Cologne, University of Duisburg/Essen, and University of Frankfurt/Main (all Germany).
He held visiting professorships at Simon Fraser University (Canada), Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou (China), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) and University of Hull (UK).

Christian Schulz studied geography in Saarbrücken (Germany), Québec (Canada) and Metz (France). After his PhD (1997, Saarland University) he moved to the University of Cologne (Germany) where he finished his habilitation thesis in 2004, dealing with environmental producer services and knowledge transfer in the manufacturing sector.