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
Speaker Section B (economics, social sciences, spatial research) of the Leibniz Association since June 2017
Speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Eastern Europe – Global Area"
Executive committee member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition"
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) since 2017
Leipzig branch office manager of the German Association for East European Studies (together with Prof. Dr. Stefan Troebst, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas at the University of Leipzig)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Laboratoire d’Excellence at CNRS „Structurations des Mondes Sociaux" (Toulouse) since 2012
Board member of the German Society for Eastern Europen Studies since 2007
Full member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig since 2004
Corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) since 2004
Member of the ARL’s State Committee of Saxony/Saxony-Anhalt/Thuringia since 2004; Full member of the German Academy for Regional Studies (Deutschen Akademie für Landeskunde) since 2004
Member of the committee for regional studies at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig since 2003
Co-editor of
German National Atlas – Beiträge zur Regionalen Geographie – Europa Regional – forum ifl – Landschaften in Deutschland – Moravian Geographical Reports (Brno) – Romanian Review of Regional Geography (Cluj-Napoca) – Regional’nye issledovanija (Moscow, Smolensk) – Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft (Vienna) – Ukrainian Geographical Journal (Kiev)
Geografijos Metrastis (Annales Geographicae) (Vilnius) – Geo-Carpathica (Sibiu)
Research interests
Regional geography, social geography, cultural geography, urban geography, transformation studies
Regions: successor states to the Soviet Union, Europe
