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; Principal Investigator, DFG (2026-29)
• Reparative Geopolitics; Principal Investigator, DFG (2025-27)
• Transformation Appeals and Rural Populism; Principal Investigator, DFG (2024-27)
• Intermediaries of Globalisation; Researcher, DFG (2022-27)

Recent Publications

• Müller, F.; Meyer, F.; Miggelbrink, J. (2026): From Lab to Table: Promissory Narratives and the Future of Protein Production in Response to Global Crises. In: Geographica Helvetica 81(3), 463-479. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-463-2026
• Plüschke-Althoff, B.; Loewen, B.; Meyer, F.; Bochkova, M.; Leetma, K. (2026): “What is a smart solution supposed to mean anyway?” Quiet smartness and the recognition of rural smart development as a question of knowledge production. In: Journal of Rural Studies 127, Art. 104317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104317
• 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

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

Key metrics
76 publications, 29 in peer reviewed journals. 566 citations. h‑Index 11. i10‑Index 14. (as of Aug 2026).

Positions
since 2024 Researcher at the IfL Leipzig, permanent.
since 2024 ongoing Lecturer at TU Dresden
03–05/2025 & 09-11/2026 Research Fellow, Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies.

Contact
f_meyer@leibniz-ifl.de