• Concepts and strategies of territorial protection in Europe
• Spatial planning and regional policy
• Regional Governance
• Rural areas in Germany and Europe
• Tourism, especially soft tourism
• Regional geography of north-west Germany, the Wadden Sea, the Alpine region, Great Britain and Scandinavia

Ingo Mose studied geography, German studies and politics as part of the single-phase teacher training programme for secondary school teachers at the universities of Osnabrück, Vechta and Oldenburg. He then worked as a research assistant in the subject of geography at the University of Osnabrück, Vechta site, from 1986-92, where he completed his doctorate in 1987 with a thesis on soft tourism in the Hohe Tauern National Park; this was followed in 1993 by his habilitation on independent regional development as a development perspective for peripheral rural areas. In the following years, various teaching assignments and guest lectureships took him to Keele University, Great Britain, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and the University of Bremen, among others. From 1993-95, he headed a European TEMPUS project on cultural and regional studies as a basis for intercultural understanding in co-operation with the universities of Bratislava, Padova and Regensburg.

From 1996-98, Ingo Mose was a visiting professor at the Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna, before accepting a professorship for regional sciences at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Vechta, where he served as deputy director for several years. He also held the position of Senate Representative for the International Office in Vechta for several years.

Since 1 October 2005, he has been Professor of Regional Sciences and Head of the Applied Geography and Environmental Planning working group at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. In this capacity, he also co-founded ZENARiO- Center for Sustainable Spatial Development Oldenburg in 2009 and served as its director until 2024. In this capacity, he also served for several years as Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research - COAST. Ingo Mose regularly took the opportunity to undertake international teaching assignments and guest professorships, including as part of the European ERASMUS programme. These have taken him to the University of Salzburg, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Södertörn University Stockholm, Staffordshire University and Kingston University London, both in the UK. He has also been a guest at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA, on several occasions. Together with colleagues from the University of Groningen, the University of Hamburg, Syddansk Universitet and the University of Bremen, Ingo Mose organises an International Research Workshop, which brings together lecturers and students of environmental, sustainability and spatial science degree programmes from the participating universities for an annual scientific exchange.

Ingo Mose's research focus includes European territorial protection policy, the development of rural areas in Europe, forms of regional governance and the spatial implications of the sustainability transformation. He also has a particular interest in qualitative methods of regional research. His regional work focuses on north-west Germany, especially the Wadden Sea region, the Alpine region, the British Isles and Scandinavia.

Ingo Mose has been a member of the German Academy for Regional Studies for several years and is the spokesperson for the Rural Areas Working Group of the German Geographical Society. From 2012 to 2015, Ingo Mose held the Jean Monnet Chair "Europeanisation and Sustainable Spatial Development"; he then served as coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Europeanizing Coastal Regions(EuCoRe)" at the University of Oldenburg from 2015 to 2018.

Ingo Mose was appointed a member of the Bremen/Hamburg/Lower Saxony/Schleswig-Holstein regional working group of the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) in 2018. For several years, he has been co-editor of "Wahrnehmungsgeografische Studien", which has been published by BIS-Verlag in Oldenburg since 1984. He is also one of the editors of the series "Ländliche Räume: Beiträge zur lokalen und regionalen Entwicklung" published by LIT-Verlag, Münster.

• 1993 Habilitation at the University of Osnabrück in the field of geography; topic: "Independent regional development - new opportunities for the rural periphery?"
• 1987 Doctorate at the University of Osnabrück; topic: "Gentle tourism in the Hohe Tauern National Park" (grade "magna cum laude")
• 1983 Examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools in the subjects German and Geography; additional examination to obtain a teaching qualification in the subject Social Studies
• 1982 - 1983 Practical teaching training at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Friesoythe
• 1979 - 1982 Parallel studies at the University of Oldenburg in the subject of geography
• 1976 - 1983 Studied Geography, German Studies, Social Studies and Educational Sciences at the University of Osnabrück, Vechta Department for the teaching profession at grammar schools (single-phase teacher training programme)

• Since 1 October 2025 research associate at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Oldenburg

• Since 2025 Lecturer in the continuing education programme "Cooperative Urban and Regional Development" at the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna

• 2024 ERASMUS guest lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Geography at the University of Salzburg
• 2022 Visiting professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2021 Lectureship as part of the Master's programme Management of Conservation Areas at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
• 2011 ERASMUS guest lecturer at Kingston University London
• 2007 DAAD guest lecturer at Södertörn University Stockholm
• Since 2006 several times lecturer in the degree programme "Management of Protected Areas" at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
• From 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2025 University Professor of Regional Sciences at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Oldenburg
• Since 2002 several visiting professorships and teaching assignments at the Institute for Geography and Applied Geoinformatics and the Institute for German Studies at the University of Salzburg
• 2001 SOKRATES Visiting Lectureship at the Department of Geography at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent (England)
• 1999 and 2004 Visiting professor and lecturer at the Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna on several occasions
• 1999 - 2000 Lectureship as part of the European University Programme for Regional Development at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz
• 1998 and 2016 Visiting International Scholar at Dickinson College, Carlisle (PA, USA)
• 1998 - 2005 University Professor for Regional Sciences at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at Vechta University of Applied Sciences
• 1996 - 1998 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna
• 1993 - 1996 Administration of a C 3 professorship for Sachunterricht at Vechta University of Applied Sciences
• 1993 - 1995 Scientific coordinator of the TEMPUS project "Cultural and regional studies as a basis for intercultural understanding and a vehicle for foreign language learning" at the International Office of the University of Bremen
• 1992 DAAD guest lecturer at the Department of Geography at Keele University (Great Britain)
• 1992 - 1994 Lecturer in the degree programme Landscape Management at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
• 1992 - 1993 Freelance consultant for the Institute for Structural Research and Planning in Intensive Agricultural Areas (Vechta) on behalf of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry
• from 1991 - 1998 several times lecturer in the degree programme Geography at the University of Bremen
• from 1991 - 1997 several times lecturer in the subject Geography at the University of Oldenburg
• 1986 - 1992 Research assistant in the Department of Geography and at the Institute for Structural Research and Planning in Intensive Agricultural Areas (ISPA) at the University of Osnabrück, Vechta site
• 1984 - 1985 Research assistant in the Department of Geography at the University of Osnabrück, Vechta (graduate programme)

• Since 2018 Member of the Bremen/Hamburg/Lower Saxony/Schleswig-Holstein regional working group of the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL)
• Since 2016 Co-editor of "Ländliche Räume: Beiträge zur lokalen und regionalen Entwicklung" published by LIT-Verlag, Münster
• 2012 - 2022 Co-partner of RaUm Consult GbR together with Dr Peter Schaal (today: RaUm Consult GmbH)

• 2012- 2015 Jean Monnet Professorship for "Europeanisation and Sustainable Spatial Development"

• 2010 ERASMUS Prize of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

• Since 2009 Co-editor of "Wahrnehmungsgeographische Studien" published by BIS-Verlag of the University of Oldenburg
• 2007 ÖGUT Environmental Award (Austria) in the category "Participation for Sustainability" together with other lecturers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and the University of Salzburg for the project "Life 2014"
• Since 2004 Spokesperson for the Rural Areas Working Group of the German Society for Geography (DGfG)
• 1987 Science Prize of the Province of Salzburg (2nd prize)
• 1982 Literature Prize of the German Alpine Association