Professor Sebastian Lentz

Director of IfL and professor for regional geography at the University of Leipzig

CV

Since 2003: Professor for regional geography at the University of Leipzig and Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography

2001–2003: Professor for anthropogeography at the University of Erfurt

2000–2002: Private lecturer for geography at the University of Mannheim

1999: Habilitation at the University of Mannheim, topic: Living segregation in post-socialist Moscow – transformation phenomena or soviet legacy?

1988–2000: Research assistant at the Institute for Geography at the University of Mannheim

1985–1988: Doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim, dissertation topic: Agricultural geography of the southern Grisons valleys of Val Muestair and Valposchiavo (1990: Mannheimer Geographischer Arbeiten; 28)

1983–1988: Freelance cartographer and typesetter

1979–1984: Studies in geography, German and education in Heidelberg and Mannheim

Memberships

Vice President of the Leibniz Association (since 2018)

Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center for East European and International Studies (since 2017)

Member of the Academic Advisory Board of Discuss Data at the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (since 2017)

Speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus „Eastern Europe – Global Area“ (EEGA) (since 2016)

Member of the Executive Board of the Collaborative Research Center „Processes of Spatialization und der the Global Condition“ (SFB 1199) (since 2016)

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO, Halle) (since 2016)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2014)

Member of the Academic Council of the Laboratoire d’Excellence LabEx „Structurations des Mondes Sociaux“ of the University of Toulouse (since 2012)

Executive Board Member of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO) and head of the branch office in Leipzig (together with Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst) (since 2015, Board Member since 2011)

Corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning Hanover and member of the workgroup „Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen“ (since 2014)

Member of the German Academy for Regional Studies (DAL) (since 2004)

Ordinary member (since 2004) and member of the Commission for Regional Studies (since 2003) of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Co-editor of

German National Atlas – Nationalatlas aktuell – Beiträge zur Regionalen Geographie – Europa Regional – forum ifl – Landschaften in Deutschland – Spatial Research and Planning – Moravian Geographical Reports (Brno) – Romanian Review of Regional Geography (Cluj-Napoca) – Regional’nye issledovanija (Moscow, Smolensk) – MSU Vestnik (Moscow) – Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft (Vienna) – Ukrainian Geographical Journal (Kiev) – Geografijos Metrastis (Annales Geographicae) (Vilnius) – Geo-Carpathica (Sibiu)

Research interests

Regional geography (Europe, successor states to the Soviet Union) cultural geography, transformation studies, knowledge transfer in geography