Beatrix Haselsberger

Beatrix Haselsberger, spatial planner by education and passion, was born in Villach (Kärnten / Austria) in 1979. Her current research focuses on the nature of borders (physical and invisible) and their impacts on space and people, cross-border interaction and cooperation as well as planning cultures, its diversity and origin.

For her research, which seeks to bridge the gap between planning theory and practice, she was awarded with several prestigious prizes like the Austrian Award of Excellence, the Rudolf Wurzer Preis for Spatial Planning or the Hertha-Firnberg Research Grant. Beatrix is active in the Association of European Schools of Planning and the Regional Studies Association, where she has been a member of the executive committees, as well as on the editorial boards of a wide range of journals.

After many years working at different universities, the Vienna University of Technology, Austria (Department of Spatial Planning), the University of Cagliari, Italy (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura), the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria (Department of Spatial-, Landscape- and Infrastructure Sciences), the University of Udine, Italy (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile), Beatrix is now moving into the planning practice too. Together with her partner, an ecologist, she will open a spatial research and planning consultancy in Austria, in the near future.