Quick Facts

Field of Research
Social and Political geographer of Europe working on spatial inequalities, rural transformation, transnational circulations, and qualitative methods.

  • Political Geography of Europe: Europeanization, geopolitics, regional differentiation, populism, and peripheral spaces
  • Spatial Inequalities and Rural Transformations: political geographies of inequality, peripheral spaces, shrinking and rural regions, rural populism
  • Transnational Circulations and Material Globalization: organ and tissue circulations, transplantation, intermediaries of globalization, and the globalized art market
  • Qualitative Human Geography and Methodological Innovation

Current Projects

  • Goya’s Great Game – Project Lead, DFG.
  • Reparative Geopolitics – Project Lead, DFG.
  • Transformation Appeals and Rural Populism – Project Lead, DFG.
  • Intermediaries of Globalisation – Researcher, DFG.

Recent Publications

  • Nguyen, P.; Meyer, F. (2026): Conceptualizing Rural Populism. The Heartland and Processes of Interpellation and Transformation. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 99(1), 41-63, 10.25162/bgl-2026-0004
  • Grabowski, A.; Meyer, F. (2025): Negotiating planetary agency of Anthropocenic health. The academic debate on satisfying the global demand for human cornea. In: GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 34(4), 258-264. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.34.4.19
  • Hostniker, S.; Meyer, F. (2024): Blinded by the Lights. Improv Theater as a Method for Researching Regional Identities. In: FQS|Forschung Qualitative Sozialforschung 25(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-25.3.4223
  • Meyer, F.; Miggelbrink, J. (2024): “Such an anger, such frustration and, above all, disappointment!” On the subjective impacts of pastoral restructuring in rural Germany. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 97(3/4), 219-239. https://biblioscout.net/article/10.25162/bgl-2024-0009
  • Miggelbrink, J.; Meyer, F. (2024): Globalisierte Geographien menschlichen biologischen Materials. Ein konzeptioneller Vorschlag am Beispiel der Corneatransplantation. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2024-0011
  • Krell, M.; Meyer, F.; (2024): Freeports, Elites, and Loopholes: A socio-spatial exploration of the globalized geographies of contemporary art trade using the TPSN-heuristic. In: Erkunde 78(2), https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2024.02.02

Teaching
BA, MA, Teacher Students. Lectures and Seminars on Regional Human Geography, Methods, Rural Development, and Populism. Exams and Supervision.

Key metrics
65 publications until 2026, 23 peer reviewed. 488 citations. h‑Index 10. i10‑Index 14. (as of Feb 2026).

Positions
since 2024 Researcher at the IfL Leipzig, permanent.
since 2024 regular Teaching Assignments at TU Dresden
03–05/2025 Research Fellow, Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies.

Contact
f_meyer@leibniz-ifl.de