Short CV
- Since 2024, Florian Janik has been a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing“
- From 2023 to 2024, he was a student assistant at the Institute of Human Geography in the Schipper research group at Goethe University.
- From 2021 to 2024, he worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Housing and Environment in the field of housing markets and housing policy in Darmstadt.
- He studied for a Master’s degree in „Geographien der Globalisierung. Märkte und Metropolen“ at Goethe University from 2019 to 2024. His thesis was titled „Klimaschutz als Verwertungsstrategie – Der Konflikt um die energetische Modernisierung in der Carl-von-Weinberg-Siedlung“
- He completed a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2014.
- He completed a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Geography and Political Science at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2018.
Recent projects
“The Ecologisation of the Housing Question – Conflicts over Energy Modernisation of the Housing Stock”
The PhD project deals with the tension between necessary measures for climate protection in the housing sector and the requirements of adequate housing provision for all sections of the population. The first part of his research project is to develop a research heuristic that examines the influence of societal natural conditions on the contradictory conditions of a market-organised housing supply. The second part is a comparative and locally embedded empirical study of conflicting modernisation projects in Europe. The aim of the project is not to accept socio-ecological conflicts of objectives as a social necessity, but to understand them as the result of modes of regulation of the connection between capital accumulation, social relations to nature and social reproduction in the respective local and historical context.