Profile

Hans-Martin Zademach is Professor of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and serves as head of the Bavarian Section of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association ARL at present. In his research, he is interested in sustainable regional development and related politics and policies, and the fundamental processes shaping socioeconomic and spatial inequalities with a particular focus on financial aspects and trans-local relations. His work has been published in a number of leading journals, among these are Journal of Economic Geography, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Local Environment, European Planning Studies, European Urban and Regional Studies, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, and ZfW – Advances in Economic Geography. His further publications include an introductory textbook into financial geographies (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2014, in German) and the co-edited volume ‘Alternative Economies and Spaces. New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy’ (Transcript, 2013). Hans-Martin Zademach holds a Master of Science in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences as well as a Master of Business Research and a doctorate degree from LMU Munich.
 

Areas of interest

• Sustainable Regional Development
• (Geographies of) Finance and Sustainability Transitions
• Diverse Economies and Spaces
• Applied Regional Studies
   

Ongoing research

• 2020–2023: Organisational and Technological Innovations in the Market for Battery Storage Systems (with Andrea Käsbohrer, funding body: German Research Foundation DFG)

• 2019–2022: Finance in Displacement: Exploring and Strengthening Financial Lives of Refugees (with Kim Wilson, Swati Mehta Dhawan et al., funding body: German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation)

• 2020–: DFG research training group 2589 “Practicing Place. Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations"

• Completed Research Projects (in German)

• See also KU.fordoc
   

Selected publications

• Käsbohrer A, Hansen T, H-M Zademach (2024): Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100844)

• Dhawan SM, Wilson K, Zademach H-M (2023): From financial inclusion to financial health of refugees: urging for a shift in perspective, Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2264780

• Flögel F, Schepelmann P, Zademach H-M, Zörner M (2023): Injecting Climate Finance into SME Lending in Germany: Opportunities for and Limitations of Regional Savings and Cooperative Banks, ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, online first

• Dudek S, Zademach H-M (2023): Territorial development in Bavaria between spatial justice and austere federalism: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Bavarian regional development politics and policies, 2008–2018, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55(4): 890–904 (further details)

• Dhawan SM, Wilson K, Zademach H-M, Zollmann J (2023): Finance without foundations: Financial inclusion’s failed claims to support refugee self-reliance, Forced Migration Review 71: 25–28 (further details)

• Dhawan SM, Wilson K, Zademach H-M (2022): Formal Micro-Credit for Refugees: New Evidence and Thoughts on an Elusive Path to Self-Reliance, Sustainability 14(17): 10469 (further details; download)
• Zademach H-M, Musch A-K (2018): Bicycle sharing systems in an alternative/diverse economy perspective: a sympathetic critique, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 23(7): 734–746 (further details)

• Klagge B, Zademach H-M (2018): International Capital Flows, Stock Markets, and Uneven Development: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography 62(2): 92–107 (download)

• Flögel F, Zademach H-M (2017): Bank branches as places of knowledge creation: Conceptual considerations and empirical findings at the micro-geographical scale, Erdkunde 71(4): 301–312 (further details; download)

• Zademach H-M, Dichtl J (2016): Greening Finance and Financing the Green: Considerations and Observations on the Role of Finance in Energy Transitions, in: Jones A, Ström P, Hermelin B, Rusten G (eds.): Services and the Green Economy, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 153–174 (download)

• Zademach H-M, Musil R (2014): Global Integration along Historic Pathways: Vienna and Munich in the Changing Financial Geography of Europe, European Urban and Regional Studies 21(4): 463–483 (further details)

• Zademach H-M (2014): Finanzgeographie (= Geowissen Kompakt), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (further details)

• Zademach H-M, Rodrian P (2013): Finanzsystementwicklung und Mobile Money in Uganda: Instrumente für ein armutsminderndes Wachstum? [Financial system development and mobile money in Uganda: Instruments towards a pro-poor growth?], Geographische Rundschau 65(10): 12–19

• Zademach H-M, Hillebrand S (eds) (2013): Alternative Economies and Spaces. New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy, Bielefeld: transcript (further details)

• See also KU.edoc
   

Academic career

• 2024–: Member of the editiorial board of Geographische Zeitschrift

• 2024–: Member of the Steering Group of the Bavarian Section of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association ARL, previously (2020–2024) head of the same committee

• 2020–: Head of the Steering Group (Leiter der Lenkungsgruppe) of the Bavarian Section of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association ARL, previously (from 2018) deputy head of the same committee

• 2020–: Member of the DFG Research Training Group 2589 „Practicing Place. Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations“

• 2019–2022: PI of the research project „Finance in Displacement – Exploring and Strengthening Financial Lives of Refugees“, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ

• 2018–: Member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the ERC research project "Western Banks in Eastern Europe: New Geographies of Financialisation" (ERC Grant 683197, Prof. Martin Sokol, Dublin)
• 2018–: Member of the editiorial board of the Journal ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography
• 2015–: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Work and Technology (IAT), Gelsenkirchen
• 2015–2017: Spokesperson (Fachsprecher) of the School of Geography of the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
• 2013–2017: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geography of the KU
• 2013–2016: Associated partner of the KU Interdisciplinary Research Group "Philosophy of Place"
• 2010–2011: Deputy Spokesperson of the KU postgraduate program ‘Sustainability in Environment, Economy and Society’
• 2009–: University professor of Economic Geography at the KU
• 2009: Visiting lecturer, Department of Social Geography & Regional Development of the Charles University Prague
• 2005–2009: Research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Economic Geography of the University of Munich (LMU)
• 2004: Visiting scholar at the Department of Industrial Economics & Strategy of the Copenhagen Business School
• 2002–2004: Research affiliate at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
• 2001–2004: Research and teaching associate at the Chair of Economic Geography of the LMU