Christoph Fink
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolChristoph Fink is an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow and social geographer with 11 years of interdisciplinary research experience at leading European universities, combining critical cartography, urban ethnography, and geoinformatics. He studies how people enact and renegotiate urban space—analysing maps, digital platforms as modern agoras, and the speech-acts and creative tactics civil movements use to claim the Right to the City. His work interweaves active mobility, urban sustainability, and socially just sustainability transformation, grounded in both qualitative fieldwork and technical GIS pedagogy. Christoph has a strong implementation and teaching background—from web cartography and geosimulation labs to developing course materials and Sphinx-based documentation for an Automating GIS Processes course. Based in Vienna, he brings a rare blend of hands-on mapping/tooling skills and critical social theory to projects that bridge digital, social, and physical urban spaces. Colleagues describe him as a scholar-practitioner who translates complex spatial ideas into accessible tools and courses.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Matura (equiv. A-Levels), Matura (equiv. A-Levels) at Bundesgymnasium BabenbergerringMag. rer. nat., Geography (Cartography Social Geography), Mag. rer. nat., Geography (Cartography Social Geography) at Universität WienDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences at University of HelsinkiGeography, Geography at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
German, English, Spanish, French, finnisch
Github Skills (14)
markdown10
jupyter-notebook10
markdown-it10
documentation10
sphinx10
python9
automated-build8
git7
spatial-data5
geospatial5
spatial5
geo5
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automating-GIS-processes/site
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Course material for the course ‘Automating GIS processes’ at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Developer (with a focus on documentation and project setup/configuration)
Technical Writer & Developer (with a focus on documentation and project setup/configuration)Contributions:75 commits, 58 PRs, 62 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to setting up and configuring the documentation for the "Automating GIS Processes" course. Their commits focused on initializing a Sphinx documentation template, modifying configuration files, and adding features like binder buttons and CSC notebook launch buttons. They updated the course information, including dates and locations. Additionally, the user was involved in minor code changes and the inclusion of external data for the course.
pythoncourse-materialfinlandhelsinkiuniversity-of-helsinki
r5py/r5py
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Rapid Realistic Routing with R5 in Python
Contributions:162 reviews, 212 commits, 297 PRs in 8 months
routingrapidpythonrealistic
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