Linda Maiwald

• Urban and regional development in the context of demographic change, with a focus on peripheral and shrinking places
• Local climate adaption, mitigation and sustainability concepts
• Transition theory, political theory
• Resource economics

Since 2025
Doctoral researcher at Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) Dresden/ Interdisciplinary Centre for Transformative Urban Regeneration (IZS) Görlitz

2022-2026
Research associate and coordinator at  TRUST, IOER/ IZS.

2021
Research associate and master student in the project Food Water and Energy for Urban Sustainable Developments (FUSE) at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig

2020-21
Intern at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig

Since 2025
Doctoral Research Project at the Chair of Ecological and Revitalizing Urban Transformation TU Dresden

2019-2021
Sustainable Development, M.Sc. - Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

2020
Sustainable Development, M.Sc. Joint Program - University of Leipzig

2016-2019
Political Science, B.A. - University of Leipzig

2015-2020
History, B.A. – University of Leipzig

TRUST - Transfer of Urban Sustainability Transition Knowledge: Towards Climate-Neutral Cities 2030 - The City of Görlitz as a Pilot

State Innovation Doctorate  Scolarship ESF PLUS Saxony, Guideline University and Research, TU Dresden (2025-2028)

Climate-KIC Master Label des Europäischen Instituts für Innovation und Technologie (EIT) (2020-2021)

Athauda, N., Zozmann, H., Maiwald, L., Klassert, C., Klauer, B., (2022): The urban food-water-energy nexus footprint model: An early application.UFZ discussion papers 2/2022. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 26 pp.