Judith Miggelbrink (PhD in Geography 2001, Leipzig University) is Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Professor of Regional Geography at Leipzig University. Her research focuses on the social production of space, particularly regions, borders, and peripheries, as well as global geographies of healthcare, conflicts over land and resource use, and populist conceptions of the regional. Her recent work on these themes includes the co-edited volume Visualisierung qualitativer Geographien: Ein Handbuch (Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2025).

In February 2026, she was a POLY Short-Term Fellow and delivered a public keynote lecture for the Writing Group “(Re-) Ordering Space” at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg, titled “Gesellschaft macht Räume: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu alltäglichen und politischen Raumproduktionen.”