Dr. Leon Wansleben

Dr. Leon Wansleben

Research Group Leader

Main Focus

  • Sociology of the state
  • Decarbonization
  • Regulation and planning of energy transitions
  • Monetary, fiscal and financial policies

    Curriculum Vitae

    since 2019
    Head of the Research Group on Contested Ecologies, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

    2014–2018
    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

    2010–2014
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sociological Seminar, University of Lucerne

    2010
    Dr. rer. soc., Sociology, University of Konstanz

    2007–2010
    Doctoral Researcher, University of Konstanz


    Awards and honors (selected)

    2018
    Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz  

    2016
    LSE Excellence in Education Award, London School of Economics and Political Science  

    2014–2015
    Ambizione scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation  

    2012
    Dissertation award "Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft," University of Konstanz

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