Dr. Jana Moser

Principal Investigator, IfL

Jana Moser is head of the department of Cartography and Visual Communication and coordinator of the research area Geovisualisations at IfL.

Jana Moser studied Cartography and received her doctorate from Technical University of Dresden, with an investigation of the cartographical history of Namibia until 1990. Before she joined IfL, Jana Moser was head of the post “Historical Atlas of Saxony” in Dresden at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig.

• Developing and editing of maps and atlases
• Map design
• History of cartography
• Regions: Saxony, Central Germany, Southern Africa

Moser, Jana; Lentz, Sebastian. Atlanten als Vermittler und Produzenten von Raumwissen: Methoden für einen vergleichenden Zugang. In: Middell, Matthias (ed). Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen I. Lepizig: University Press, 2021, pp. 71-99

Moser, Jana; Mayer, Philipp. The Use of Color in Geographic Maps. In: Wülfingen, Bettina Bock von (ed). Science in Color. Visualizing Achromatic Knowledge. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 163-179