Johanna Leissner
Dr Johanna Leissner is a chemist and material scientist and has studied climate change impacts on cultural heritage for over 20 years. She chairs the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) Expert Group Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change. She also is a member of the European Commission’s Cultural Heritage Forum, a supervisory board member of the EIT Culture & Creativity programme, the German delegate for the Council of Europe’s strategy “European cultural heritage in the 21st century” and a member of the UNESCO World Heritage Expert Group on climate change impacts.
Dr Johanna Leissner works as scientific representative at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany and co-wrote a study for the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA): “Climate change and cultural heritage: a technological approach to preservation”.
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Interview with Dr Johanna Leissner on how to tackle the threat of climate change to cultural heritage
Dr Johanna Leissner has been studying climate change impacts on cultural heritage for over 20 years and is active in several EU and UNESCO expert groups on this topic. She co-authored a study for the European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) “Climate change and cultural...