Christian Fertner

Knowledge of languages

German, Danish, English

Short presentation

I am associate professor in urban and regional planning at IGN and am a member of the resarch groups Spatial Change and Planning and GIScience and Geodesign.

Research topics include spatial planning, sustainable urban development, resource and energy efficient cities, land use change, urban sprawl, functional regions, small towns, spatial analysis, digital planning.

I hold a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (2006) from the Vienna University of Technology. My PhD project (finished in 2012) was supervised by Gertrud Jørgensen, Thomas Sick Nielsen and Stephan Pauleit and dealt with urbanisation of rural areas and urban growth management.

In the past years I was involved in several national and international projects, including

• Peri-urban land use relationships (EU-FP6 PLUREL, 2007-2011)
• Land use scenarios for Greater Copenhagen (Centre for Strategic Urban Research, 2011).
• Challenges and prospects of Danish small towns (Realdania, 2012-2013)
• Planning for smart and energy efficient cities (EU-FP7 PLEEC, 2013-2016)
• Urban metabolism and waste behaviour in touristic cities (EU-H2020 URBAN WASTE, 2016-2019)
• Regional strategies for sustainable and inclusive development (EU-ESPON ReSSI,  2016-2017)
• Emerging digital plan data - perspectives into evaluation and planning practice (NOS-HS workshop series, 2019-2020)

I am / was co-supervisor for several PhD students: Tongyun Du (ongoing), Lu Sun (ongoing), Liang Xiao (guest PhD 2019-2020), Juliane Große (finished in 2017)

I teach in the Landscape Architecture programme. From 2008 to 2014 I was co-responsible for the bachelor course "Bypolitik" (Urban policies). Since 2016 I am co-responsible for "Byplan Studio" (Urban Planning Studio). I regularily supervise bachelor and master students. Here you can find a list of potential topics for master theses within our research group.

Feel free to contact me. I speak German, English and Danish. You can also find me on LinkedIn and ResearchGate or pass by my blog on landblend.wordpress.com.

CV

Below you can see an outline of professional employments since my degree:

Since Feb 2017
Associate professor at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
Main research and teaching activities:
- NOS-HS workshop series Digital plan data - research perspectives (2019-2020)
- EU-H2020 project URBAN WASTE (2016-2019)
- EU ESPON project ReSSI (2016-2017)
- Teaching in course "Byplan Studio - Strategi og Design 1 & 2" (since 2016)

Sep 2012 - Jan 2017
Assistant professor at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (former Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning), University of Copenhagen
Main research and teaching activities:
- EU-FP7 project PLEEC (2013-2016)
- Energy Smart Cities-DK (2014)
- Prospects and challenges of Danish small towns (2012-2013)
- Teaching in course "Bypolitik" (2008-2014)

Sep 2007 - Aug 2012
PhD student at Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen
Main research and teaching activities:
- EU-FP6 project PLUREL (2007-2011)
- CSB-project "Modelling land use scenarios for greater Copenhagen" (2011)
- Teaching in course "Bypolitik" (2008-2014)
- PhD project "Urbanisation, urban growth and planning" (2008-2012)

April – Nov 2007
Research assistant for the project "Smart Cities: Ranking of European medium-sized cities" at the Centre of Regional Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

May – July 2007
Assistant for the Interreg III B project PolyDev at the Regional Environmental Centre in Bratislava, Slovakia

Sep – Nov 2006
Assistant for the EU-FP6 project MATISSE at the Institute of Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Aug – Sep 2006
Intern at the Department of Urban Planning, City of St. Pölten, Austria

June 2006
MSc in Urban and Regional Planning at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Thesis on cross-border co-operation in city-regions

Teaching

Ongoing:

• Co-responsible for bachelor course "Byplan Studio 1 & 2" (Urban Planning Studio, 30 ECTS, since 2016)
• Supervision of bachelor projects, master theses and projects in practice

Former:

• Exercise supervision in "By- og regionaludvikling" (Urban and regional development, 7.5 ECTS, 2019)
• Co-responsible for bachelor course "Bypolitik" (Urban policies, 7.5 ECTS, 2008-2014)
• Contributions to "Byplananalyse" (Urban analysis) and "Byplanstrategi" (Urban planning strategies) and guest lectures in other courses