Claudia Lang

Claudia Lang is an Associate Professor at the University of Leipzig and an affiliate researcher at the Department of Anthropology, Politics and Governance at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. Her work bridges academic and institutional roles, focusing on health-related societal transformations.

• Regional Focus: India
• Current Project: Social relevance of health apps, techno-utopias/dystopias, and digitization in global mental health
• Research Affiliations: Member of the Max Planck Institute; Lived Utopias and Science and Universality working groups

Her research explores intersections of global health, depression, digitization, and medical anthropology, with additional interests in Ayurveda, planetary health, and gender in globalizing contexts.

Claudia Lang investigates how digital technologies reshape care practices and human-technology relationships. Her work addresses ethical and political dimensions of mental health app use, particularly how globalized notions of well-being are encoded in digital tools.

Key contributions include analyzing techno-utopias in health innovation, global psychiatry dynamics, and health governance frameworks. Her projects integrate anthropological perspectives on science and technology.

Scientific Honors:

• Recipient of the Heisenberg Fellowship for academic excellence

She engages in interdisciplinary collaborations and maintains active research links between the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute, emphasizing digitization's impact on health governance and planetary well-being.