Prof. Dr. Anna Growe has been Head of the Department of Economics of Urban and Regional Development at the Institute for Urban Development since March.

After studying spatial planning in Dortmund and Venice, Anna Growe completed her doctorate at TU Dortmund University. She worked as a post-doc at the University of Freiburg, where she habilitated in 2019 on the topic of "The spatial constitution of the knowledge economy". From 2015 to 2022, she was Junior Professor of Regional Governance at the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University.

Her research interests focus on spatial development in the knowledge economy and governance structures in complex regions. At the University of Kassel, she supports the focus of sustainability research by focusing on the challenges for sustainable spatial development.