Dr. Thorsten Lenz Senior Researcher        Arnulfstrasse 56 80335 Munich Tel.: + 49 (0)89 21234-316 E-Mail: Lenz (at) ihf.bayern.de

Thorsten Lenz studied economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and did his doctorate at the Department of Economic Theory. Since 2009 he is senior researcher at the IHF. His research interests include governance in universities, regional aspects of higher education, and knowledge and technology transfer.

Current projects

Networking of university councils at German universities

Situation of severely disabled employees at Bavarian universities

Impact of university councils on universities of excellence and third-party funding

Use of study grants and equalisation payments at universities in Bavaria in 2024

Accompanying study ‘Establishing the career path of the tenure-track professorship in the German academic system’ for the Federal Report on Early Career Researchers (BuWiN) 2025

Measures to increase student numbers in the engineering sciences at Bavarian universities of applied sciences/technical universities