Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS)

Jonas Lieth

Research focuses

• Climate change perceptions and public opinion
• Spatial inequalities and spatial justice
• Energy poverty and energy transitions

Curriculum vitae

• Since 2026 PhD in cultural and social geography, Leibniz University Hannover, topic: „The socio‑spatial roots of climate backlash“
• Since 2026 Research fellow at the professorship for Empirical Social Research, University of Cologne
• 2023-2026 Research fellow in the team Survey Data Augmentation at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
• 2021-2023 Student assistant at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
• 2019-2023 M.Sc. Geography (Focus: Environment & Society), University of Cologne
• 2016-2019 B.Sc. Geography, University of Cologne

Selected publications

• Lieth, J., & Jünger, S. (2026). Digital geographies of green discontent: Exploring the contexts of environmental attitudes through georeferenced tweets. Digital Geography and Society, 10, 100151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100151
• Lieth, J., Abel, D., & Jünger, S. (2025).Between national trends and local realities: Spatializing energy vulnerability in 16 EU countries. Energy Policy, 206, 114695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114695
• Rieche, T., Jung, A., Lieth, J., Goebel, J., Sikder, S. K., & Meinel, G. (2025).Potentials of a Research Infrastructure for Linking Survey and Spatial Data to Enable Interdisciplinary Research. AGIT Conference, 1. https://doi.org/10.25598/agit/2025-21
• Abel, D., Lieth, J., & Jünger, S. (2024).Mapping the spatial turn in social science energy research. A computational literature review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 201, 114607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114607
• Lieth, J., Abel, D., & Jünger, S. (2024).GRETA analytics: Communicating the spatial dimension of energy citizenship using a collaborative shiny app.SoftwareX, 27, 101800.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101800

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