Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch
• Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
• Speaker of the Research Theme "Sustainable Urban Development and Quality of Life" 2003-2008 (POF 1, Topic 1)
• Speaker of the Cluster "Impact of Urban Dynamics on Land Use Options" 2009-2013 (POF 2, Topic 1)
Division of Social Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Working Group Urban and Regional Research
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1237
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 1836
Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch
Curriculum Vitae
2009
Professor in Urban Geography at the University of Leipzig
2006-2008
Associate Professor for Urban Geography at the University Leipzig
since 06/2004
Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
2000-2004
Deputy Head of the Department of Economics, Sociology and Law
1997-1999
Head of the Department of Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology
1994-1996
Deputy Head of the Department of Landscape Ecology
since 1992
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
1982-1991
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute for Sociology, University Leipzig, Germany
1982
PhD in Urban Sociology, University Leipzig, Germany
1979-1982
Research fellow at the Institute for Sociology, University Leipzig, Germany
1974-1978
Diploma in Economics/Sociology at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Current Projects
"Urban Woodlands", (2009-2010, Bundesamt für Naturschutz)
"Future chances of large housing estates considering climate change - an international comparison" (POF II)
"Mega-Trend Urbanisation: Vulnerability and Environmental Risks", (2009-2013, POF II)
"Risk Habitat Megacity", Research subject "Socio-spatial differentiation" (2007-2010, Helmholtz-Initiative)
"Social and spatial consequences of demographic change for East-Central European cities" (2006-2009, supported by the VW-Foundation)
"Housing and living conditions in the large housing estate Leipzig-Grünau" - 9. Survey within the long-term study, started in 1979, (2009-2010, supported by the City of Leipzig)
"Peri-urban land use relationships – Strategies for urban-rural linkages" (PLUREL), in cooperation with Dept. Computational Landscape Ecology (2007-2010, EU-Project)
"Socio-demographic change in neighbourhoods of post-socialist European cities", (ongoing since 1992, HGF)
Completed Projects
Activities in the Scientific Community
• Member of 
IAPS - International Association for People-Environment Studies
• Member of German Sociological Society:
• Member of the German Geographical Society
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany
