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Dr. des. Lena Schlegel

Qualifications

Doctoral Degree in Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 2025 (Summa cum Laude)

M.A. Peace Studies and International Politics, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, 2019 (1,0)

B.A. Political Science and Sociology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, 2016 (1,6)​​​

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Professional Experience

08/2026 - today: Postdoctoral Researcher, Cluster of Excellence 'Future Forests', University of Freiburg

06/2025 - 05/2026: Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Society-Environment Research Group, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

02/2021 - 04/2025: Doctoral Researcher, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

03/2024 - 12/2024: Research Assistant, Center for International Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

08/2023 - 02/2024: Research Assistant, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen

04/2022 - 04/2023: Visiting Researcher, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne

​11/2019 - 01/2021: Research Associate, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen

11/2016 - 10/2019: Research Assistant, various projects, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

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Awards and Grants

Incubator Grant, DFG Research Cluster of Excellence 'Future Forests' (2026)

Munich Sustainability Award, Selbach-Umweltstiftung, for the Doctoral Dissertation (2026)

Doctoral Scholarship, Heinrich Böll Foundation (2021-2024)

Conference Travel Grants, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (2022, 2024)

Sustainability Award, University of Tübingen for the MA Thesis (2019)

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Certificates

Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education, ProfiLehre Bavaria, 2022

Conservation Ranger Training, Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL), 2025

Wildlife Rescue Training, Wildlife Rescuers Inc. and Wildlife Victoria, 2023

Wildlife Care and Rehabilitation Qualification, Eichhörnchen Schutz e.V., Munich, 2021

Certificate Studium Oecologicum, University of Tübingen, 2016

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