Official position
Head of Department
Institution
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Business address
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Academic education and degrees
1974 - 1978
| Diploma in Economics/Sociology, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
1982 | PhD in Sociology, Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig |
1988 - 1989 | Postgradual studies University Education |
1991 | Facultas docendi (Urban and Regional Sociology) |
2006 | Habilitation, University Leipzig |
2006 | Venia Legendi, Urban Geography |
Professional career
Since 1992
| Senior Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ |
1994 - 1996 | Deputy head of Department for Landscape Ecology |
1997 - 1999 | Head of Working Group Environmental Economy and Sociology |
2000 - 2004 | Head of department Urban and Environmental Sociology |
Since 2004 | Deputy Department Head, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte (CCM) |
2009 | Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Leipzig |
2014 - 2020 |
Speaker of the Integrated Project "Urban Transformations: sustainable urban development towards resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience", HGF-project |
2020 - 2022 | uVITAL "User-Valued Innovations for Social Housing Upgrading through Living Labs", Trans-Atlantic Platform “Social Innovations” |
Since 1979 | Long-term Study „Housing and Living in Leipzig-Grünau” (11th survey: 2020, ongoing project) |
Honors, awards and positions
Since 2018 | Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board: Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) URBAN EUROPE |
2018 - 2019 | EU High Level Expert Group for the new Horizon 2020 Program on “Innovating Cities”, Member |
Since 1995 |
Member of IAPS International Association for People-Environment Studies |
Since 2000 | Member of the
German Sociological Society |
Since 2015 | Member of Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 50, Scopus h-index: 14)
Chen X, de Vries S, Assmuth T, Dick J, Hermans T … Kabisch S et al. Research challenges for cultural ecosystem services and public health in (peri-)urban environments. Sci Total Environ. 2019;651 (Part 2): 2118-2129.
Kabisch S, Koch F, Gawel E, et al. (eds.): Urban transformations - Sustainable urban development through resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience, Future City 10, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2018.
Altrock U, Grunze N, Kabisch S. (eds): Großwohnsiedlungen im Haltbarkeitscheck: differenzierte Perspektiven ostdeutscher Großwohnsiedlungen, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2018.
Haase A, Schmidt A, Rink D, Kabisch S. Leipzig’s inner east as an arrival space? Exploring the trajectory of a diversifying neighbourhood. Urban Plann. 2020;5(3): 89-102.
Kabisch S, Finnveden G, Kratochvil P, Sendi R, Smagacz-Poziemska M, Matos R, Bylund J. New urban transitions towards sustainability: Addressing SDG challenges. Sustainability. 2019:11(8): 2242.
Koch F, Kabisch S, Krellenberg K. A transformative turn towards sustainability in the context of urban-related studies? A systematic review from 1957 to 2016. Sustainability. 2018; 10(1): 58.
Grossmann K, Kabisch N, Kabisch S. Understanding the social development of a post-socialist large housing estate: The case of Leipzig-Grünau in eastern Germany in long-term perspective. Eur Urban Reg Stud. 2017;24(2): 142-161.
Banzhaf E, Kabisch S, Knapp S, Rink D, Wolff M, Kindler A. Integrated research on land-use changes in the face of urban transformations – an analytic framework for further studies. Land Use Pol. 2017; 60: 403-407.
Kabisch S, Ueberham M, Schlink U, Hertel D, Mohamdeen A. Local residential quality from an interdisciplinary perspective : combining individual perception and micrometeorological factors. In: Kabisch, S., et al. (eds.) Urban transformations. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2018; p. 235-255.
Haase D, Kabisch S, Haase A, Andersson E, Banzhaf E et al. Greening cities – To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities. Habitat Int. 2017; 64: 41-48.
Foto: Sigrun Kabisch