Academic Education
10/2013 - 10/2016	M.A. Human Geography, Humboldt-University, Berlin
01/2016 - 06/2016	Research stay for the completion of the Master’s thesis within the NEURUS (Network for European and U.S. Regional and Urban Studies) program at Arizona State University, USA
10/2009 - 09/2013	B.Sc. in Geography and Latin American Studies, University of Hamburg
Work Experience
10/2022 - 03/2025	Research Associate at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen
07/2020 - 09/2022	Staff Member at the Coordination Structure for Community-Oriented Urban Development (AKS), Gemeinwohlorientierte Stadtentwicklung e. V., Berlin
03/2017 - 12/2019	Institute for Social Innovation, Berlin

Transatlantic Conference: Community Engagement and Local Knowledge are Crucial to Pandemic Responses. Blog, Institute for Pandemics, University of Toronto. Martens, T.; Botha, M.; Guiterrez, X. ; Pereira, C. ; Trivellato, P. (2025) Web publication (blog article)
Rezension zu M. Blank / S. Nimführ (Hrsg.): Writing Together. Kollaboratives Schreiben mit Personen aus dem Feld (Postcolonial Studies, Bd. 45). Bielefeld: transcript Breuckmann, T.; Dzudzek, I.; Halder, S.; Kamphaus, L.; Martens, T. (2025) In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 113(1). Review (journal)
Community Voices in Academic Spaces: Seminars and Conferences. Blog: Social Mobilization as Policymaking Lever? (SMAPL). University of Sao Paulo. Martens, T. (2025) Web publication (blog article)
Vorlaufforschung: Interdependente Genderaspekte der Bedürfnisfelder Mobilität, Konsum, Ernährung und Wohnen als Grundlage des urbanen Umweltschutzes. Gender Mainstreaming für eine zielgruppenspezifischere, effektivere urbane Umweltforschung Rückert-John, J; John, R;, Alber, G.; Röhr, U; Weller, I.; Tippe, M. (2020) Dessau-Roßlau(kein Verlag angegeben). Project report
Gabenzäune in Berlin: Community through Solidarity Fences in the Times of Covid-19. In Community: Atlas in a Day, edited by Guerilla Cartography Martens, T; Mariz; A. (2020) Other scientific publication

Duration: 15/10/2022 - 31/03/2025 | n.a. Funding period

Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster

Greetings from the margins of collaborative research. Workshop on the Challenges of Research Collaboration with Non-Academic Partners Before and After Fieldwork Martens, Theresa; Kamphaus, Lisa, Blank, Martina (24/05/2024) Tagung der neuen Kulturgeographie, Münster Type of talk: practical talk
Transformation durch gesundheitsbezogene Community-Forschung? Forschungsergebnisse aus Gießen Martens; T.; Akozel, J; Birinci, D.; Majid, M. (04/03/2024) Kongress Armut und Gesundheit, Berlin Type of talk: scientific talk
Como Fundar um Grupo de Pesquisa Comunitária: Reflexões a partir de um Projeto de Saúde Comunitária em Gießen Martens, T. (06/10/2023) Congresso „Respostas comunitárias à COVID-19: Experiências da Alemanha, Brasil, Canadá e Peru, São Paulo Type of talk: scientific talk
Queer sense of place: Politics of belonging of queer women in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area Theresa Martens (19/08/2018) Including LGBTIQ* into Urban Governance and Strategies of Regeneration, Erkner Type of talk: scientific talk
Mapping Practices of Transformation Beyond Metropolitan Areas Martens, T. (15/07/2018) International World Congress of Sociology, Roundtable “Sociology of Science and Technology", Toronto Type of talk: scientific talk