Leonie Büttner
M.Sc., Research Scientist
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49 - 341 - 235 482268
leonie.buettner@ufz.de
Areas of Expertise and Research
- Digital transformation, smart cities
- Politics of energy and water
- Urban infrastructures
- Sustainability transformations
- Technology-Environment-Society
Curriculum Vitae
since 03/2022
PhD candidate at the UFZ, Department of Environmental Politics
04/2021 – 02/2022
Scholar of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
06/2019 – 04/2022
Research scientist at the UFZ, Department of Environmental Politics
10/2018 – 05/2019
Research Assistant at the UFZ, Department of Environmental Politics
03/2018 − 07/2018
Research Assistant at the UFZ, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
10/2015 – 12/2018
M. Sc. International Area Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
01/2018 – 02/2018
Internship at the UFZ, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
02/2017 – 06/2017
DAAD Scholar at the EWHA Womans University, Seoul (South Korea)
11/2016 – 12/2016
Internship at the Office for Housing and Urban Renewal, City of Leipzig
09/2016 – 10/2016
Internship at the Centre for Transformation Research and Sustainability (TransZent) in the project "Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal" (WTW)
10/2011 − 04/2015
B. Sc. Biochemistry, University of Leipzig
Publications
- Büttner, L., Barning, L. (2023):
A situated governmentality approach to energy transitions: technologies of power in German and Indian smart grid strategies
Geogr. Helv. 78 (4), 581 - 592 10.5194/gh-78-581-2023 - Büttner, L., Darbi, M., Haase, A., Jax, K., Lepenies, R., Priess, J., Zeug, W. (2023):
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda
Sustain. Sci. 18 (3), 1569 - 1574 10.1007/s11625-023-01293-5 - Büttner, L., Kress, N. (2025):
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany
Urban Stud. 62 (8), 1584 - 1600 10.1177/00420980241295935 - Büttner, L., Rink, D. (2019):
Urban transition of the heat sector in Leipzig toward a post-fossil city?
Sustainability 11 (21), art. 6065 10.3390/su11216065 - Büttner, L., Rink, D. (2024):
Die Wärmewende kommunal gestalten. Potenziale und Probleme des Quartiersansatzes am Beispiel Leipzigs
In: Kabisch, S., Rink, D., Banzhaf, E. (Hrsg.)
Die resiliente Stadt: Konzepte, Konflikte, Lösungen
Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, S. 111 - 126 10.1007/978-3-662-66916-7_8 - Lepenies, R., Büttner, L., Bärlund, I., Jax, K., Lyytimäki, J., Pedersen, A.B., Ørsted Nielsen, H., Mosoni, C., Mille, R., Payen, G., Richard, D. (2023):
The politics of national SDG indicator systems: A comparison of four European countries
Ambio 52 (4), 743 - 756 10.1007/s13280-022-01809-w - Lyytimäki, J., Salo, H., Lepenies, R., Büttner, L., Mustajoki, J. (2020):
Risks of producing and using indicators of sustainable development goals
Sustain. Dev. 28 (6), 1528 - 1538 10.1002/sd.2102 - Mustajoki, J., Borchardt, S., Büttner, L., Köhler, B., Lepenies, R., Lyytimäki, J., Mille, R., Pedersen, A.B., Reis, S., Richard, D. (2022):
Ambitiousness of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets: classification and implications for policy making
Discov. Sustain. 3 , art. 36 10.1007/s43621-022-00104-8 - Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K.E., Moreno Soares, T., Munoz, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Es geht um unsere Lebensgrundlage: Wie wir jetzt handeln können, um die globalen Gemeingüter Biodiversität, Wälder und Meere für eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu erhalten
UFZ-Bericht 2/2021
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 15 S. - Wittmer, H., Berghöfer, A., Büttner, L., Chakrabarty, R., Förster, J., Khan, S., König, C., Krause, G., Kreuer, D., Locher-Krause, K., Moreno Soares, T., Muñoz Escobar, M., Neumann, M., Renner, I., Rode, J., Schniewind, I., Schwarzer, D., Tröger, U., Zinngrebe, Y., Spiering, S. (2021):
Transformative change for a sustainable management of global commons — biodiversity, forests and the ocean. Recommendations for international cooperation based on a review of global assessment reports and project experience
UFZ Report 3/2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, 154 pp. 10.57699/7s83-7z35