Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

Leon-Fabian Caspari, M.A.

Research Assistant


Leon-Fabian Caspari has been a research assistant at the Institute of Anthropology since January 2026. He is pursuing his doctorate as part of the research project “Climate Adaptation Management in Germany: Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change in Urban Lower Saxony” (more information to follow).

As part of ENLIGHT from July 2021 to April 2024, he coordinated various Blended Intensive Programs (BIPs) together with Elfriede Hermann and in interdisciplinary teams with scientists from other ENLIGHT universities, which deal with the sociocultural impacts and responses to the climate crisis. The focus was on the interactions between climate protection, adaptation, and climate justice.

Anthropology of Climate Change (climate adaptation; resilience; disasters); anthropology of Policy and Expertise; (climate adaptation policies, urban governance, critical policy research); urban anthropology (social infrastructures, urban heat, practices of care).


Europe, especially Germany