Tim Freytag
Cultural Geography
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Tim Freytag is Professor of Human Humography at the Institute of Cultural Geography at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. After studying geography, history and romance at the universities of Heidelberg, Granada (Spain) and Geneva (Switzerland), Freytag was promoted in 2003 at the University of Heidelberg. Before moving to Freiburg in 2010, Freytag was initially a research associate in Heidelberg and since 2009 a professor of cultural geography at the University of Kiel. Freytag has developed an internationally oriented and interdisciplinary research profile based on scholarships and projects.
Research Interest
His main areas of research and teaching include tourism and mobility research, social and cultural geography, educational geography and urban and metropolitan research.
Publications
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Oswald, F. and Wahl, H.-W. (2010): The use of tracking technologies for the analysis of outdoor mobility in the face of dementia: First steps into a project and some illustrative findings from Germany. In: Journal of Housing for the Elderly 24 (1), 55-73.
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Freytag, T. (2010): Being a tourist in Heidelberg: Exploring visitor activities and spatial mobility in the city. In: Revista Geografica Italiana 117 (2), 379-389.
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Freytag, T. (2010): Déjà -vu: tourist practices of repeat visitors in the city of Paris. In: Social Geography, 5, 49-58.
