Daniel Schiller

Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the University of Greifswald, Germany since 2016 and Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer since 2025. He investigates current dynamics in regional economic development across various scales and in different spatial contexts. He is particularly interested in processes of innovation-driven regional structural change and the conditions for the emergence of knowledge and innovation. His research contributes to the shaping of a sustainable transformation of regional economies against the backdrop of grand challenges. In addition to economic dynamics, he examines social perspectives and the impacts of transformations on spatial justice. His research group also works on futures of globalisation, with an emphasis on current trends in the rescaling of global networks and the interlinking of global value chains and production networks with regional development processes. The geographical focus of his work is on Germany, the Baltic Sea region and countries in East and South-East Asia. Building on contributions to basic research, his research interests explicitly encompass application-oriented and transdisciplinary aspects. He is programme director of the MSc Regional Development and the MSc Bioeconomy, spokesperson of a regional bioeconomy alliance, and member of the expert council on rural development at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional identity.