Prof. Dr.-Ing.habil. Manisha Jain

• International vergleichende Raumentwicklung und -analyse
• Großräumige Infrastruktur und daraus resultierende räumliche Ungleichheiten
• Integration von Umweltaspekten in die Raumentwicklung 
• Mixed-Methods-Ansatz für die evidenzbasierte Raumplanung
• Anwendung von GIS, Digitalisierung und KI in Raumplanung und -analyse
   

Seit 04/2026
Professorin für Raumentwicklung, Fachhochschule Erfurt

03/2023-03/2026
Projektleiterin bei der SHP Energieprojekt GmbH, Dresden
Projektingenieurin bei der BPM Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH / MEP Plan GmbH Dresden

03/2022-02/2023
Kumulative Habilitation (Raumentwicklung), Fakultät Umweltwissenschaften, Technische Universität Dresden

09/2015- 02/2022 
Postdoc, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Dresden

03/2014 - 08/2015
Postdoc, Stadtplanung und Regionalentwicklung, HafenCity Universität Hamburg

04/2013 – 02/2014
Assistentin des Kursdirektors, Master Infrastructure Planning, Universität Stuttgart

11/2009 -12/2012
Promotion (Dr.-Ing.) im Fachbereich Stadt-und Regionalplanung, Universität Stuttgart

03/2007 – 10/2008
Master of Science Infrastructure Planning (MSc.), Universität Stuttgart

03/1998 – 02/2007
Architektin und Planerin (Projektleiterin) bei Privatunternehmen in Indien

12/1998- 03/2003
Bachelor’s in Architecture, Indian Institute of Architects, Mumbai, Indien

06/2001- 07/2002
Post Graduate Diploma in IT-Management, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management Delhi, Indien

07/1993 – 03/1997
Bachelors in Architectural Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, Indien

10/2024-10/2025
kommunaleWärmeplan für Stadt Lauchhammer, Brandenburg.
kommunaleWärmeplan für Stadt Wolgast, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
kommunaleWärmeplan für Stadt Roßwein, Sachsen.

12/2017-02/2021
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) gefördert IndiaInfra (Development of a methodological framework for linking infrastructure provision with settlement system in Indian urban regions)

09/2015-02/2022
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft gefördert ReSouth (Resource efficiency of settlement structures in the global SOUTH)

03/2014-08/2015
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefördert FRAWL (Fragmented governance, sprawl and infrastructure provision in Indian metropolitan areas).
 

2022
Emerging Scholar Award, American Association of Geographers, Washington D.C. USA

2009 - 2012
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Promotionsstipendium

2009
Promotionsstipendium der Landesgraduiertenförderung Universität Stuttgart

2007 - 2008
Baden-Württemberg Master Stipendium

2006
DAAD Master Stipendium

• ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
• American Association of Geographers
• Arbeitskreis Südasien, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie
• Arbeitskreis Geographische Stadtforschung im Entwicklungskontext
• Council of Architecture, Indien
• Indian Institute of Architects

Zeitschriften 
Area Development and Policy, Asian Geographer, Built Environment, Case studies in Transport policy, Cities, Ecological Indicators, Economic and Political Weekly, Environment and Planning A, GeoJournal, Habitat International, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Land Use Science, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Journal of Transport Geography, Landscape and Urban Planning, Land Use Policy, Professional Geographer, Rural Society, Sustainability, Trialog Journal, Transportation, Transport Policy, Urban Geography.

Projekte
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)

Internationale Zeitschriften

1. Jain, M., Sikder, S., & Korzhenevych, A. (2023). Application of an interdisciplinary research framework for discerning land use transitions in the peri-urban areas of India. Applied Geography, 155 (2023) 102944. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102944. IF=4.9
    

2. Jain, M., & Korzhenevych, A. (2022a). The concept of planetary urbanization applied to India’s rural to urban transformation. Habitat International, 129 (2022) 102671. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102671. IF=6.8
    

3. Jain, M., & Korzhenevych, A. (2022b). Discerning institutional and spatial restructuring under emergent neoliberal projects in India. Political Geography, 97, (2022): 102642. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102642. IF=4.1 
    

4. Jain, M., Korzhenevych, A., & Hecht, R. (2021a). Two decades of urban and rural restructuring in India: An empirical investigation along Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. Habitat International, 117 (2021): 102444. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2021.102444. IF=6.8
    

5. Jain, M., Korzhenevych, A., & Mukherjee, A. (2021b). Integrating spatial development with infrastructure provision along an envisioned transport corridor: A conceptual framework and its application to India. Land Use Policy, 104 (2021): 105364. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105364. IF=7.1
    

6. Jain, M. & Jehling, M. (2020 a). Urban cycle models revisited: Insights for regional development in India. Cities, 107 (2020): 102923. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102923. IF=6.7
    

7. Jain, M. & Jehling, M. (2020 b). Analysing transport corridor policies: An integrative approach to reduce spatial and social disparities in India. Journal of Transport Geography, 86 (2020): 102781. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102923. IF=6.1
    

8. Jain, M., & Korzhenevych, A. (2020). Urbanisation as the rise of census towns in India: An outcome of traditional master planning? Cities, 99 (2020): 102627. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102627. IF=6.7
    

9. Jain, M. & Hecht, R. (2019). Spatial assessment of commuting patterns in India’s National Capital Region. Built Environment, 45 (4):464-479. Doi: https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.45.4.507.
    

10. Jain, M., & Korzhenevych, A. (2019 a). Detection of urban system in India: Urban hierarchy revisited. Urban and Landscape Planning, 190 (2019) 103588: 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103588. IF=9.1
     

11. Jain, M., Korzhenevych, A., & Sridharan, N. (2019 a). Determinants of growth in non-municipal areas of Delhi: Rural-urban dichotomy revisited. Journal of Housing & Built Environment, 34: 715–734. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-019-09655-1. IF=1.9
     

12. Jain, M., Korzhenevych, A., & Pallagst, K. (2019 b). Assessing growth management strategy: A case study of the largest rural-urban region in India. Land Use Policy, 81: 1-12. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.10.025. IF=7.1
     

13. Jain, M., & Korzhenevych, A. (2019 b). Counter-urbanization as the growth of small towns: Is the Capital Region of India prepared? TESG, Journal of Social and Economic Geography, 110 (2): 156-172. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12344. IF=4.8
     

14. Korzhenevych, A., & Jain, M. (2018). Area- and gender-based commuting differentials in India’s largest urban-rural region. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 63: 733-746. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2018.07.013. IF=7.6
     

15. Jain, M., Korzhenevych, A., & Hecht, R. (2018). Determinants of commuting patterns in a rural-urban megaregion of India. Transport Policy, 68: 98-106. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.04.018. IF=6.8
     

16. Jain, M. (2018 a). Contemporary urbanization as unregulated growth in India: The story of census towns. Cities, 73: 117-127. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.017. IF=6.7
     

17. Jain, M. (2018 b). The effect of distance on urban transformation in the Capital Region, India. International Planning Studies, 23 (1): 37-50. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2017.1329648. IF=2.1
     

18. Jain, M., & Korzhenevych, A. (2017). Spatial disparities, transport infrastructure provision and decentralization policy in the Delhi region. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 143 (3): XX. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000379. IF=2.5
     

19. Jain, M., & Pallagst, K. (2015). Land use beyond control – how fragmented governance created sprawl in the Delhi Metropolitan Area. disP-The Planning Review, 51(3): 29-43. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2015.1093349. IF=1.3
     

20. Jain, M., Knieling, J., & Taubenböck, H. (2015) Urban transformation in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India: The emergence and growth of slums? Habitat International, 48, 87-96. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.03.020. IF=6.8
     

21. Jain, M., & Siedentop, S. (2014). Is spatial decentralization in National Capital Region Delhi, India effective? An intervention-based evaluation. Habitat International, 42: 30-38. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.10.006. IF=6.8
     

22. Jain, M., Siedentop, S., Taubenböck, H., & Sridharan, N. (2013). From suburbanisation to counterurbanisation? Investigating dynamics of urban development in National Capital Region Delhi. Environment and Urbanisation ASIA, 4 (2): 247-266. Doi: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0975425313510765. IF=1.6
     

Buchbeiträge (Peer Review)

1. Jain, M. (2023). Assessment of spatial disparities in India: a contribution to advancing urban research methods in rapid growth contexts. Habilitation treatise, Dresden. Social Science Open Access Repository, https://doi.org/10.26084/fmdd-fm28
    

2. Jain, M., Sridharan, N., & Korzhenevych, A. (2018). From informal to inclusive urbanization: Options for funding the transformation in India. In: Benna, U., Benna, A. (Eds.), Crowdfunding and Sustainable Urban Development in Emerging Economies. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, 2018. 
    

3. Jain, M., & Knieling, J. (2018). Growth of census towns in capital region of India: informal urbanization as a symptom of counter-urbanization? In: Benna, U., Benna, I. (Eds.), Urbanization and its impact on socio-economic growth in developing regions. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, 23-43.
    

4. Jain, M., & Knieling, J. (2015). Stadtentwicklung am Beispiel Indien: Empfehlungen aus planerischer Perspektive. In: Wurm, M., & Taubenböck, H (Eds) Globale Urbanisierung - Blickwinkel aus dem All. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 277-279.
    
5. Jain, M. (2013). Analyzing effectivity of urban growth management in the National Capital Region Delhi, India. Shaker Verlag: Aachen. Pages 232.
    

Konferenzbeiträge (Peer Review)

1. Jain, M., & Xie, Xi. (2017). The rise of informal urbanization in the Global South: A breach of urban planning or bridging of the urban infrastructure supply gap? In: Schmidt, M., Follmann, A., Poerting, J. (Eds.) Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien. 7. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 27./28. Januar 2017, Augsburg, (Geographien Südasiens, Band 8), 38-41. 
    

2. Jain, M. (2016). Steering growth towards integrated regional development in rapidly growing Indian regions. In: Schlitz, N., Poerting, J. (Eds.) Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien. 6. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 22./23. Januar 2016, Osnabrück, (Geographien Südasiens, Band 7), 21-24. 
    

3. Jain M., Taubenböck, H., & Namperumal, S. (2011). Seamless urbanisation and knotted city growth: Delhi Metropolitan Region. In: REAL CORP 16th International Conference: Change for Stability: Lifecycles of Cities and Regions, Essen.
    

Berichte

1. Rupp, C., Hoffmann, R., Jain, M., Ludwig, D., & Gütte, S.  (2025). Kommunaler Wärmeplan für die Stadt Wolgast. Stadt Wolgast. https://www.wolgast.de/fileadmin/Dateien/Buergerservice/Bekanntmachungen/2026/Kommunaler_W%C3%A4rmeplan_Stadt_Wolgast_SHP_Energieprojekt_Feb.2026.pdf.
    

2. Rupp, C., Hoffmann, R., Jain, M., Ludwig, D., & Gütte, S.  (2025). Kommunaler Wärmeplan für die Stadt Lauchhammer. Stadt Lauchhammer. https://daten2.verwaltungsportal.de/dateien/seitengenerator/7acdbc03bb0da15360b313206539507f42259/17.02.2026_165609_Endbericht_kWP_Lauchhammer_17.02.pdf
    

3. Rupp, C., Hoffmann, R., Jain, M., Ludwig, D., & Gütte, S.  (2025). Kommunaler Wärmeplan für die Stadt Roßwein. Stadt Roßwein.