Madlen Pilz

Dr. Madlen Pilz is a Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), specializing in Politics and Planning. She holds a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin, where she analyzed post-socialist urban transformation in Tbilisi. Her research focuses on urban redevelopment, migration integration, and housing estates in East Germany, with active projects including 'StadtumMig' and 'Estates after Transition'.

Her scholarly interests span urban exclusion, migration governance, and the socio-spatial impacts of post-socialist transitions. Recent publications explore themes like social infrastructures in arrival neighborhoods, municipal integration policies, and European disintegration narratives.

She collaborates on interdisciplinary projects funded by entities like DFG and BMBF, examining diversity in post-migrant cities and climate-integration policy intersections. Her fieldwork employs discourse analysis and ethnographic methods across Germany, Georgia, and Eastern Europe.