Lea Königer
Research Profile
Environment | Climate | Panel Research | Survey Methods | Survey Experiments
Lea Königer is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at GLEN (German Longitudinal Environmental Study). Her main research and professional topics are in the field of survey methodology. She focuses in particular on panel attrition, data quality, survey experiments, and methodological issues in survey design. As a survey manager at GLEN, her responsibilities include planning, conducting, and documenting surveys, as well as panel management. In addition, she works closely with external service providers and contributes to the study's scientific outreach and public communication efforts.
Current Research Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2026 Research Associate: Survey Management for the German Longitudinal Environmental Study, Heidelberg University
Since 2025 PhD Candidate, Heidelberg University: Understanding and Addressing Survey Errors in Mixed-Mode Environmental Panel Research
2024–2026 Research Associate: Survey Management for the German Longitudinal Environmental Study, LMU Munich
10/2021–09/2023 M.A. in Sociology, LMU Munich
06/2022–11/2022 Graduate Research Assistant in the pilot study of the German Environmental Panel GLEN (German Longitudinal Environmental Study)
10/2021–05/2022 Graduate Research Assistant on the DFG-funded long-term project pairfam – the German Family and Relationship Panel at the Department of Sociology, LMU Munich
10/2016–09/2021 B.A. in Sociology and Political Science, LMU Munich
Presentations
07/2025: Königer, Lea. Star Rating Scales in Online Grid Questions: Better than Verbally Labelled Scales? Presentation at the ESRA Conference.
03/2025: Königer, Lea. Self-Administered Recruitment of a Push-to-Web Panel: Experiences and Experiments from the GLEN Environmental Panel. Presentation at the 17th Workshop of Panel Surveys in the German-Speaking Region.