LeipzigLab / Working Groups

Working on new research fields, so-called emerging fields, requires new forms of interdisciplinary networking in an innovative scientific environment. This is what the LeipzigLab stands for with its three working groups Global Health, Children and Nature and Historical Anthropospheres.

Working groups

Die Professorin Julia Schmidt Funke steht vor einem Bildschirm und gibt eine Präsentation
Working Group Children and Nature, Photo: Christian Hüller
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The Board

The board consists of one working group leader from each working group and makes decisions, for example about future activities of the LeipzigLab.

 

 

Professor Katja Liebal

Professor Katja Liebal

Chairperson, WG Children and Nature

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-36879


Professor Maren Möhring

Professor Maren Möhring

WG Global Health

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-35680


Professor Christoph Zielhofer

Professor Christoph Zielhofer

WG Historical Anthropospheres

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-32965

 Martina Schliessler

Martina Schliessler

Administrative Coordinator

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-30340

 Henriette Niekler

Henriette Niekler

Officer for Strategic Projects

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-35018

 Esther Jana Benning

Esther Jana Benning

Research Fellow for Public Relations

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

LeipzigLab

Working on emerging research fields requires new forms of interdisciplinary networking in an innovative scientific environment. This is what the LeipzigLab represents with its three working groups: Global Health, Children and Nature and Historical Anthropospheres.  

The working groups are supported through funding and personell from the initiative budget for a period of three years each. Additionally, external fellows are invited to expand the national and international dialogue of the LeipzigLab.

Goal of the LeipzigLab

The aim of the LeipzigLab is to take up and further develop new, unconventional and promising questions in a targeted manner. Hereby, the LeipzigLab provides new impetus for the strategic research fields at the Leipzig University and its further development as a research university.

Every year, a working group is established after a university-wide call for proposals.

Current working group: Children and Nature (start in 2020), Global Health (start in 2020), Historical Anthropospheres (start in 2023)

Alumni: Intangibles (2020 – 2022)

 

Fellows in the LeipzigLab

Currently, environmental and cultural scientist André Krebber is a fellow at LeipzigLab. He investigates social human-nature relations from a historical and theoretical perspective. His work focuses on questions of knowledge production and how they are intertwined with human-nature relations, as well as the special role of animals in them.

 

 

Dr. André Krebber

Dr. André Krebber

Research Fellow

Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-30344

Apply for the place of a working group in the LeipzigLab

Every working group is given a postdoc position and is led by two scientists, professors or advanced postdocs from different disciplines. In addition, external fellows are invited to expand the national and international dialogue of the LeipzigLab.

From 23 June to 15 September 2023, it is once again possible to apply for a place in a working group in the LeipzigLab. This will begin its work on 1 January 2024 for three years.

TO THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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The LeipzigLab

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The LeipzigLab with the Working Groups Historical Anthropospheres, Children and Nature and Global Health, Photo: Christian Hüller

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