Thilo Lang

Head of Department and Rersearch Director at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany and Professor for Economic Geography at the Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany

2013 RSA Routledge Award for Early Career Excellence

Co-host and co-organiser of the RSA Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Conference, held in Leipzig from 14 to 17 September 2022

His research explores, from an institutionalist and political economy perspective, new futures for left-behind places, alternative economies and multi-scalar conceptions of peripheralisation and polarisation, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe.