Sebastian Lentz
Sebastian Lentz is the Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IFL), the only non-university research institute for Geography in Germany. He holds a professorship in Regional Geography at the University of Leipzig. His research focuses on aspects of regional, social, cultural and urban geography as well as transformation studies in Eastern Europe and post-socialist countries. At present, Lentz acts as one of the two speakers of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe, Global Area”. Since 2016, he has also conducted research within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199: “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” where he is involved in the project "Maps of Globalization: The Production and the Visualization of Spatial Knowledge".