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Dr Anne Otto

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Professional background

Prof. Dr Anne Otto has held a professorship in labour market and higher education research at the University of Kassel since April 2026. The professorship is affiliated with the Faculty of Economics and the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER).

After studying economic geography at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich (1992–1998), she worked there until 1999 at the Institute of Economic Geography; from 1999 to 2003, then in the working group „City and Region“ at the University of Bonn; and from 2004 to 2005 at the Institute for Development Planning and Structural Research at the University of Hanover. Since May 2005, she has been a research fellow at the IAB Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland.

In 2022, Anne Otto completed her habilitation in Geography at the Institute for Economic and Cultural Geography (IWKG) at Leibniz University Hannover, where she has been teaching since 2018.

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