Paul Seidel

Since June 2025, Paul Seidel has been a research associate in the “Politics and Planning” Research Area of the “Urban Politics” Research Group. In the context of the new flagship project “Urban Heat Transition,” he is investigating large housing estates.

Paul Seidel completed his bachelor's degree in European Ethnology and History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He earned his Master of Arts in Sociology with a focus on planning and urban sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. His master's thesis focused on case studies of historicisation tendencies in tense housing markets in Berlin. Parallel to his studies, he worked as a research assistant at Humboldt University in the “City Lab for Multimodal Anthropology” and later at the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) on research projects such as “Spatial Disparities and Compensation Policies in Cities of the GDR and the FRG” and “Urban Authenticity.” After completing his studies, Paul Seidel worked until 2025 as a research assistant, technical advisor, and deputy office manager for the housing and construction policy spokesperson of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in the German Bundestag.