Sabine von Löwis studied Economic and Social Geography at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) and gained a doctorate at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She has held positions at various university and non-university research institutes, working on projects on the stability and change of spatial structures in urban and rural areas. From 2011 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, where she was involved in the joint research project Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa (Phantom borders in East Central Europe) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Having studied the persistence and dissolution of spatial structures in Western Ukraine within this project framework, she now focuses her research on the post-Soviet space. In December 2017, Sabine von Löwis joined the research team at ZOiS, where she coordinates the research cluster Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions.

• Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions

• Everyday Life in Conflict - Scope for Action and Coping Strategies in De Facto States
• Phantom Spaces and Borders - Continuities and Discontinuities of Past State and Imperial Structures
• Political Orientations and Identities in De Facto States 

• Forced Migrants From Ukraine in Transnational Europe: Between Personal Agency, Civil Society And The State (FORUM)

• Engagement without Recognition – Higher Education in De Facto States 

• Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic, and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War (KonKoop)

• The Liberal Script in Ukraine's Contested Border Regions

• Living with Uncertainty – Strategies of Adaptation and Horizons of Expectation in Ukraine and Moldova (LimSpaces)