Dr. Ellen Banzhaf

PhD - Senior Scientist

Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone: ++49 341 6025 1738
Dr. Ellen Banzhaf

Dr. Ellen Banzhaf


Research Areas


Quantitative analyses of spatial and temporal dynamics in urban regions and detection of urban structures by remote sensing techniques. Monitoring and change detection of land-use/land-cover (LULC) in the interdisciplinary field of urban transformation studies. Deriving urban structures and further spatial indicators to understand processes of spatial dynamics and linkage to socio-demographic and socio-economic parameters in neighbourhoods, cities and urban regions. Regional, national and international contexts are taken into account. Research in urban resilience has a strong focus on nature-based solutions.

  • Monitoring urban land use and land cover at various scales from urban regions to neighbourhoods;
  • Analysing impacts of land-use dynamics and population development as drivers for urban transformations;
  • Investigating urban structures, especially their urban ecological and socio-economic parameters, for resilient urban development paths;
  • Linking quantitative and qualitative information for equitable nature-based solutions;
  • Continued development of interactive walkable floor maps as science-policy ínterface.

Current project


 Publications

2024 (11)

2023 (3)

2022 (7)

2021 (2)

2020 (5)

2019 (3)

2018 (5)

2017 (5)

2016 (3)