Prof. Dr. Paul Lehmann has been Professor of Water Management and Climate Adaptation (W2) since 1 March 2025. He succeeds Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holländer, who previously held the professorship under a different denomination “Environmental Technology in Water Management/Environmental Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises”. More information can be found further down the news message.

 

Dr. Charlotte Bartels has held the Professorship of Finance (W3) at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics since 1 April 2025, a position she has held since 1 October 2024. She succeeds Prof. Dr. Lenk, who held this professorship on September 30, 2024 after more than 30 years and retired at the end of the summer semester 2024. More information can be found further down the news message.

 

Prof. Dr. Lena Tonzer has held the Professorship of Money, Credit and Banking (W2) since 1 April 2025, succeeding Prof. Dr. Vollmer, who held the Professorship of Money and Currency until the winter semester 2023/2024. More information can be found further down the news message.

 

Prof. Xiang Li, PhD, is also a newly appointed professor for “International Macroeconomics” (W2 with tenure track to W2) together with the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) since April 1, 2025. More information can be found further down the news message.

 

With their respective highly qualified expertise, the professorships will further strengthen the profile of Leipzig University and the Faculty of Business and Economics in the field of “Sustainable Economy” and provide important impetus for research, teaching and knowledge transfer. We warmly welcome them and look forward to working with them.

 

Prof. Dr. Paul Lehmann

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics is pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Paul Lehmann as a new member of its teaching staff. Effective March 1, 2025, Mr. Lehmann was appointed to the professorship for Water Management and Climate Adaptation.

Prof. Lehmann received his doctorate in economics (summa cum laude) from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2010 with the topic “Using a Policy Mix to Combat Climate Change - An Economic Evaluation of Policies in the German Electricity Sector”.

His research focuses in particular on the economic evaluation and management of climate change adaptation measures and sustainable strategies for the use and protection of water resources. His interdisciplinary approach combines economic analysis with ecological responsibility.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Lehmann worked at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, where he was involved in international research projects and developed innovative solutions for climate-resilient infrastructures. He was also project leader of the junior research group “Sustainable expansion of renewable energies with multiple environmental impacts - strategies for overcoming ecological conflicts of interest” at the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig until 2024 and held the junior professorship for economics, in particular environmental and energy economics at the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ.

The professorship is assigned to the Institute of Infrastructure and Resource Management. Prof. Dr. Lehmann's office is located in room I441, Institute building, Grimmaische Str. 12, 04109 Leipzig. 

You can find more information here: https://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-infrastruktur-und-ressourcenmanagement/professuren/wassermanagement-und-klimaanpassung

 

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Bartels

Prof. Bartels completed her doctorate on “Insurance and Incentives in the German Welfare State” (summa cum laude at the Free University of Berlin) and won the Wolfgang Ritter Prize and the Roman Herzog Research Prize for Social Market Economy in 2014. She has also been honored with membership in the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and by the Berliner Tagesspiegel as one of the 100 Köpfe der Hauptstadt-Wissenschaft. In the winter semester of 2023/24, she took over Monika Schnitzer's professorship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; she previously worked at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and City University New York (CUNY).

Her research interests lie in the field of public finance and social policy. The first pillar of her research consists of estimating long-term income and wealth inequality series for Germany from 1871 and 1895 to the present, both nationally and regionally. Long-term inequality series not only provide an overview of the extent of inequality changes over time, but also form the basis for the second pillar of her research: the investigation of the causes and consequences of changing wealth and income distributions. The third pillar of her research deals with the design of taxes and social policy against the background of the equity-efficiency trade-off and climate change. 

The professorship is assigned to the Institute of Public Finance and Public Management. The office of Prof. Dr. Bartels is located in room A 138, Neues Augusteum, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig.

You can find more information here: https://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-oeffentliche-finanzen-und-public-management

 

Prof. Dr. Lena Tonzer

The Faculty of Business and Economics is pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Lena Tonzer as a new member of its teaching staff. Effective April 1, 2025, Ms. Tonzer was appointed to the professorship for Money, Credit and Banking.

Prof. Dr. Lena Tonzer is a renowned economist with a focus on financial market regulation and international banking. Since April 2023, she has held a professorship at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where she headed the Chair of Economics, in particular Macroeconomics. 

Prior to this, she was an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has been a research associate in the Financial Markets department at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) since May 2014. There she heads the research group “Regulation of International Financial Markets and International Banking” and the International Banking Library.

She began her academic career by studying International Economics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She then completed her doctorate at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, with a dissertation on “Essays on Financial Stability and Regulation in Integrated Markets”.

In her research, Prof. Dr. Tonzer focuses on international banks, financial intermediation and regulation as well as financial and sovereign debt crises. She has been a Research Affiliate at SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum since 2019. In addition to her research activities, she has held teaching positions at various universities, including Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 2017 to 2021 and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2021 to 2023.

The professorship is assigned to the Institute of Theoretical Economics. The office of Prof. Dr. Tonzer is located in room I 307, Institute Building, Grimmaische Str. 12, 04109 Leipzig

You will find more information here shortly: https://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/institut-theoretische-vwl 

 

Prof. Xiang Li, PhD

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics is pleased to welcome Prof. Xiang Li, PhD as a new member of its faculty. Effective April 1, 2025, Ms. Li has been appointed to the joint professorship with the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) for “International Macroeconomics”.

Prof. Dr. Xiang Li has been a member of the Macroeconomics Department at the IWH since October 2018, where she heads the research group “Financial Integration, Economic Growth and Financial Stability”. 

Her research interests include international finance, the Chinese economy and open macroeconomic issues. One focus of her work is the role of multinational corporations in the transmission of global financial shocks. Prof. Li is one of eight female scholars in Germany to be funded under the Leibniz Women Professors Program 2024, which supports outstanding female scholars across all disciplines.

Prof. Li obtained two bachelor's degrees and her Ph.D. from Peking University. Before joining the IWH, she was a part-time economist at the China office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2017 to 2018 and a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota from 2016 to 2017.

In her current research, she is investigating, among other things, how financial technologies influence the effectiveness of monetary policy. Her work has been published in renowned journals such as the Journal of International Economics.

The professorship is assigned to the Institute for Theoretical Economics.

You will find more information here shortly: https://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/institut-theoretische-vwl