Dr. Larissa Fleischmann

Dr. Larissa Fleischmann

Team Leader

Diversity in Socio-Ecological Transformations: Migration, Demographic Change, Environmental Conservation

Portrait Larissa Fleischmann, Teamleiterin, Team A6. Foto JTC | Markus Scholz

CV

12/2024 – now

Research Team Leader of the Innovation Team A6 “Demographic Change and Migration” at the European Centre for Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC), MLU Halle-Wittenberg

01/2022 – 10/2022 and 03/2024 – 03/2025

Parental Leave

2018 – 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Human Geography Research Group, MLU Halle-Wittenberg

2019

PhD in Social Sciences (Dr. rer. soc.), title of the dissertation “The Contested Solidarities of Refugee Support in Germany: Actions between Humanitarian Aid and Political Activism” (defended with summa cum laude and awarded the 2021 Research Prize of the Migration and Ethnic Minorities Section of the German Sociological Association)

2014 – 2018

Researcher and PhD Candidate in the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” and Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz.

2013 – 2014

Master’s degree in “Human Geography – Space, Politics and Power” (MRes) at the University of Glasgow, UK.

2010 – 2013

B.Sc. in Geography at the University of Bayreuth

2009 – 2013

B.A. in African Development Studies in Geography at the University of Bayreuth

Projects

Stories of Transformation, Spaces of Possibility: Participatory Approaches to Exploring Experiences of Change and Future Imaginaries in Wolfen-Nord

This participatory knowledge-transfer project develops innovative formats at the interface of research and practice. It addresses a central question: How can diverse experiences of transformation be made visible and brought into dialogue—and how might these conversations generate ideas for socially just, ecological, and democratic urban and neighbourhood development?

Animals, Power, and Space: More-than-Human Political Geographies of Animal Health

How are borders produced, legitimized, shifted, or contested in the context of the management of animal health? This research project examines more-than-human governance practices as they emerge through the management of infectious animal diseases, such as African swine fever and avian influenza.

Energy transition below ground? Subterranean Geographies of Transformation and the Geothermal Use of Mine Water in Mansfeld-Südharz

How is subterranean mine water negotiated, regulated, and valorized for geothermal use within contemporary debates on energy transitions in eastern Germany? This project investigates how energy transitions unfold “below ground,” while simultaneously illuminating the contested political negotiations and more-than-human relations that take shape “above ground.”