Principal Investigator, IfL
Bio
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.
Research Interest
- Developing and editing of maps and atlases
- Map design
- History of cartography
- Regions: Saxony, Central Germany, Southern Africa
Main publications
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
Foto: © IfL/ Franziska Frenzel
Contact
Home Institution
IfL – Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography