Josephine Brandenburg

Since May 2025

Funded as part of the ‘Graduate Centre for Doctoral Students’ of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)

Since January 2025

Doctoral student in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts around Internet Routing’ (BMFTR project), Working Group on Geographies of Digital Infrastructures, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

2021-2024

Master of Arts Cultural Geography: ‘Legitimacy of European border protection – The European border protection agency Frontex in crisis’, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

2017-2021

BA Cultural Geography/Political Science: “Climate refuge to Europe? A discourse-theoretical analysis of negotiations and practices of the EU Commission”, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Chilla, T., Bertram, D., Hippe, S. et al. (2023): Grenzraumatlas – Arbeitsmaterialien aus dem BMBF-Projekt Cohesion in Border Regions (CoBo). DOI: 10.12140/RG.2.2.32406.93766

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I am a doctoral candidate in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts over Internet Routing,’ led by Dr. Finn Dammann.

In my dissertation, I am investigating unequal infrastructuralisation in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on content delivery networks and AI. In addition, I am generally interested in postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in the field of digital and political geography.

• Interconnection Hubs, Content Delivery Networks and Emerging AI Infrastructures. Insights into the Material Geographies of ‘digital Ecosystems’ in the Western Mediterranean. Poster presentation at the annual conference of the Royal Geographic Society 2025 (26.8-29.8) in Birmingham, UK.
• Interconnection hubs, content delivery networks and emerging AI infrastructures – insights into the material geographies of digital colonialism in the western Mediterranean region, conference of the Political Geography Working Group, 22–24 May 2025 in Freiburg (together with Finn Dammann)