Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig (UFZ) is one of the world’s leading environmental research centers. Overcoming disciplinary borders between natural, engineering and social sciences, the UFZ explores ways to combine societal development with a healthy environment. The UFZ supports the scientific community, the political arena, the economy and the general public to better understand the consequences of human actions on the environment and to guide social decision-making processes. It boasts innovative scientific infrastructures and nurtures indispensable national and international cooperation, enabling problem-solving at the highest level. S. Kabisch  is Speaker of the Section on Urban transformation at UFZ and Head of the Department for Urban and Environmental Sociology and Urban Geography and Social Sciences at Leipzig University. She has internationally recognized expertise in long-term studies in urban sociology and socio-spatial differentiation processes.