Field of Research
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
- Meyer, F.; Miggelbrink, J.; Nguyen, P. (2026): Acceleration and Recursion in AI-Mediated Qualitative Research: Discussing Adapted Criteria for Qualitative Inquiry in the Techno‑Epistemic Age. In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods 25, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069261459023
- 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
Teaching
BA, MA, Teacher Students. Lectures and Seminars on Regional Human Geography, Methods, Rural Development, and Populism. Exams and Supervision.
Key metrics
74 publications, 27 in peer reviewed journals. 524 citations. h‑Index 11. i10‑Index 15. (as of Jun 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