Barbara Lenz (traffic scientist)

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Barbara Lenz
Interview by Tim Pritlove with Lenz about autonomous transport.

Barbara Lenz (born February 12, 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German transport researcher, mobility expert and university lecturer.

academic career

In 1994 she received her PhD in Dr. rer. nat., in 2001 she completed her habilitation at the University of Stuttgart on the subject of "Functional Differentiation and Spatial Arrangement of Plants Producing Flowers and Ornamental Plants - An Economic Geography Study on the Basis of the Filière Concept".

Since January 1, 2002 she has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Transport Research in Berlin-Adlershof of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), her research topics are mobility behavior, the environment and sustainability, networking of modes of transport and the interactions between transport and economy. On January 1st, 2007 she took over the management of the institute. At the same time she was appointed professor for traffic demand and traffic effects at the Technical University of Berlin .

Since the 2003/04 winter semester, she has held the DLR special professorship for transport geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 2019 Lenz was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Board memberships and management functions

Barbara Lenz is a member of the University Council of the Technical University of Dresden and since September 2018 has been head of the working group "Alternative drives and fuels for sustainable mobility" (AG-2) of the National Platform for the Future of Mobility. This working group has 27 members, civil society organizations, companies, associations and other stakeholders from the field of alternative drives and fuels for sustainable mobility.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Podcast Research Spirit of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft : Autonomer Verkehr (Volume 3, December 1, 2014)
  2. ^ A b Barbara Lenz profile as a member of the University Council of the TU Dresden. February 5, 2019, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ German Aerospace Center e. V .: New Head of the Institute for Transport Research, www.ivf.dlr.de (April 18, 2007)
  4. ↑ AG 2 - Alternative drives and fuels for sustainable mobility ›NATIONAL PLATFORM FUTURE OF MOBILITY. Accessed March 7, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German traffic researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart