Sakura Yamamura

Department of Geography | Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering | RWTH Aachen University

Sakura Yamamura, PhD, is Professor for Digital Methods in Human Geography (Social Geography) at the RWTH Aachen University and senior research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, where she had been a post-doctoral research fellow from 2018 to 2022. With expertise in migration studies, urban and economic geography, her work focuses on the spatiality and practices of social and economic activities in migrant-led diversification of society including issues of diversity and intersectionality as well as socio-spatial differentiations and marginalization. She studied geography, sociology, and social/cultural anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Université de Paris 1 – Sorbonne and University of California Berkeley. As a practitioner, she previously worked for the Migration Research Group at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), in the International Migration Division of the OECD, and at the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).