Husa

Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
A-1010 Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7/4, Zi. C 529

T: +43-1-4277-48632

1969 – 1974: Studies of Geography and English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
1974, graduation as "Master of natural science“ (Mag. rer. nat.)
1983 Graduation as Dr. phil. (PhD) with a doctoral thesis on internal migration, residential mobility and suburbanization processes in the Vienna Region
1988 Tenure ("Venia Docendi" in Human Geography) after presenting a monograph ("Habilitation Thesis") on "Spatial mobility in Third World Countries as a complex phenomenon: The example of Thailand“

1974 – 1975 Research fellow at the University of Vienna, Department of Geography
1975 – 1979 University Assistant
1979 – 1988 University Assistant and Lecturer
June 1988 Tenure, Assistant professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna until June 1996
June 1996 Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
since 2002 Head of the Asia Research Group of the Dept. of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
since October 2009 board member of the interdisciplinary research platform on „Migration and Integration“ of the University of Vienna
since October 2011 vice co-ordinator for the scientific cooperation of the University of Vienna with Southeast Asian universities (ASEA Uninet)

spatial demography, theory, dynamics and spatial patterns of internal and international migration, theory and dynamics of population change, socio-demographic transformation processes, theory, dynamics and spatial patterns of fertility decline and population ageing,
Regional focus: Southeast Asia, Europe

Population Geography, Spatial Demography, Migration Research , Development Problems and Regional Disparities in Third World Countries (regional focus: Southeast Asia)
Excursion abroad: Organisation and scientific support of numerous excursions to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Tunesia, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, India, Nepal, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR
Lectures abroad: lectures on various topics (mainly population geography) at numerous universities in Europe, India, Southeast and East Asia

Austrian Geographical Society
Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Washington D. C.
Thai-Austrian Society
Working Group "Southeast Asia" of the "German Geographical Society" (DGfG)
SEAS - Working Group "Promotion of Southeast Asian Studies" - Verein zur wissenschaftlichen Foerderung suedostasiatischer Anliegen (honorary member)
Editorial Board: HSK – Internationale Entwicklung (since 1996);
Editorial Board: Edition Weltregionen (since 2003);
Editorial Board: Konzepte und Kontroversen. Geschichte – Geographie – Politische Bildung (since 2004);
Referee for scientific journals: Statistische Nachrichten, Die Erde, Erdkunde, Revue Geographie Belge;
Referee for projects: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (since 2008)

Hatz, G., Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (1993). Bangkok Metropolis: eine Stadt in Südostasien zwischen Boom und Krise. In P. Feldbauer, E. Pilz, D. Rünzler, & H. Stacher (Eds.), Megastädte: Zur Rolle von Metropolen in der Weltgesellschaft (pp. 149-189). Böhlau Verlag. Historische Sozialkunde Vol. 2 No. 1993