Lisa Thiel worked as a research assistant and administrative support at the IMPRS-KIR from September 2022 until September 2025.
Lisa completed the MA Global History program at Freie Universität Berlin und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a double BA in History and Cultural Studies from Universität Leipzig, which she complemented with a semester at Goldsmiths College, London, and a DAAD-funded study visit to the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. Since October 2025, Lisa has been doing her PhD at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam.
In the past, Lisa worked as a student assistant at the Department of History at Universität Leipzig. She supported the annual postgraduate program of the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation as a project and research assistant in 2021.
