Thomas Ott (geographer)

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Thomas Ott (* 1966 in Speyer ) is a German geographer . Until 2008 he held a lectureship (scientific assistant) for human geography with a focus on urban geography , population geography , economic geography and GIS at the University of Mannheim . Thomas Ott is married and has four children.

Life

Ott studied geography at the University of Mannheim . He did his doctorate in 1997 with a topic of urban geography (Erfurt in the transformation process of the cities in the new federal states) with Paul Gans at the PH Erfurt. Since 1997 he has been a research assistant in the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Mannheim. Ott is considered one of the pioneers in the application of geographic information systems ( GIS ) in economic and social geography. He is also considered a profound expert on the Cascadia region, i.e. the Canadian west coast and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In 2004 Thomas Ott received the doIT Software Award from the MFG Foundation .

Thomas Ott is one of the academic students of Barbara Hahn , Christoph Jentsch and Paul Gans . Thomas Ott also runs a GIS consulting company called OAGIS and is the managing director of IUWA GmbH.

Works (selection)

  • GIS in anthropogeography. Regional disparities and the urban system in Europe (materials on geography; 22). Institute of Geography, Mannheim 1993.
  • Contributions to the geographic method and regional studies (Mannheimer Geographischearbeiten; 44). Geographisches Institut, Mannheim 1996, ISBN 3-923750-66-8 (together with Sebastian Lentz , Rainer Lukhaup and others)
  • Erfurt in the transformation process of the cities in the new federal states. A regulation theory approach (Erfurt Geographical Studies; 6). Institute for Geography, Erfurt 1997, ISBN 3-9803607-5-X
  • Internet for geographers. A practice-oriented introduction . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-89678-112-X (together with Paul Tiedemann )
  • Time-integrative GIS. Management and analysis of spatio-temporal data . Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-41016-3 (together with Frank Swiaczny )

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personal data
SURNAME Ott, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer