Prof. Leipold was jointly appointed with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig in WiSe 2021, where she heads the Department of Environmental Politics. She studied political science, history and social sciences in Bochum, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and New Delhi. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University Freiburg on the influence of interest groups on narratives of international forest policy, which was awarded the German Thesis Award (2nd Prize Social Sciences) for special societal relevance. In 2017-2021, she was a junior professor at the University of Freiburg, leading a research group on the "Circular Bio-Economy". She has been a visiting scholar at Yale University, University of Technology Sydney, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. Her research focuses on (environmental) discourse analysis and discursive agency, circular economy and bioeconomy, and transnational business governance. When she is not researching and teaching, she enjoys mountain biking in her home state of Thuringia or in her adopted home of Saxony.
Prof. Dr. Sina Leipold
Professor of Environmental Politics
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Personal Details
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Research Interests
- Discourses, Narratives & Discursive Agency
- Interpretative Policy Analysis
- Circular Economy
- Bio-Economy
- Sustainable supply chains, Illegal logging and trade, Legality Verification
- Urban and Industrial Ecology
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Publications