Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lentz

Principal Investigator, IfL

Sebastian Lentz is director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) and Professor for Regional Geography at the Leipzig University.

Before joining the IfL he held positions as Associate Professor for Geography at the University of Mannheim and as Professor for Human Geography at the University of Erfurt. Among other functions, Sebastian Lentz is vice president and member of the board of the Leibniz Association, speaker of the Leibniz Science Campus ‘Eastern Europe – Global Area’ (EEGA) and member of the board of trustees of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He is the responsible editor of ‘Nationalatlas aktuell’, co-editor of ‘Raumforschung und Raumordnung’ and member of several editorial boards and committees such as MSU Vestnik, Moscow and Ukrainian Geographic Journal, Kyiv.

• Regional geography
• (Eastern) Europe
• Globalisation processes
• Transformation research
• Knowledge transfer in geography

Lentz, Sebastian; Moser, Jana. Atlanten als Vermittler und Produzenten von Raumwissen: Methoden für einen vergleichenden Zugang. In: Middell, Matthias (ed). Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen I. Lepizig: University Press, 2021, pp. 71-99

Lentz, Sebastian; Frühauf, Manfred; Guggenberger, Georg; Meinel, Tobias; Theesfeld, Insa (eds). Kulunda: Climate Smart Agriculture. South Siberian Agro-steppe as Pioneering Region for Sustainable Land Use. Cham: Springer, 2019

Lentz, Sebastian; Bykov, N.I.; Borisenko, M.A.; Wust, A. Spatial Patterns of Actual Demographic and Migration Processes in Kulunda. In: Lentz, Sebastian; Frühauf, Manfred et al (eds). Kulunda: Climate Smart Agriculture, South Siberian Agro-steppe as Pioneering Regio for Sustainable Land Use. Cham: Springer, 2019, pp. 289-297

Lentz, Sebastian; Gebhardt, Hans; Glaser, Rüdiger (eds). Europa – eine Geographie. Heiderlberg: Springer, 2013