Dr. Leonie Hensgen

  • Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
    Postfach 3640
    76021 Karlsruhe

Current positions

  • Post-Doc
  • Transacademic Interface Manager (T.I.M.)

Fields of work

  • Sustainability research
  • Further development of real-world laboratory research within transdisciplinary research
  • International contexts / cooperation

Current projects

  • Coordination of the strategic fund project “Further development of the foundations and infrastructure for long-term, excellent, and effective transdisciplinary research, with a special focus on real-world laboratory research”
  • Establishment of a real-world laboratory hub at KIT and its networking at the international level

Professional background

since 2025 Post-Doc at ITAS
2023 - 2025 Research officer, University of Excellence
2018 - 2022 Senior lecturer (NADEL, ETH Zürich), Senior program manager (ETH for Development, ETH Zürich)
2017 - 2018 Project assistant (ETH Zürich)
2014 - 2016 Master of Advanced Studies Development and Cooperation (ETH Zürich)
2012 - 2014 Promotion at the Heidelberg University, scientifc staff member at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and at the Max-Planck-Stiftung für Internationalen Frieden und Rechtsstaatlichkeit