Lina Schwab, born in Leipzig in 1979, holds a degree in Media Production and Management. From 2019 to 2023, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) as executive assistant to Director Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn and in this role coordinated the research-related activities of his department. The larger projects she has worked on include the Mississippi: An Anthropocene River project, the Anthropocene Campus Venice (2021) and the Anthropocene Markers Workshop (Berlin, 2021). In June 2020 she took over the central coordination of the exhibition “Leonardo’s Intellectual Cosmos”, which ran from May to July, 2021 in Berlin and was co-organized by the MPIWG, the Museo Galileo in Florence and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, supported by NOMIS Foundation and the Italian Embassy in Berlin.

Since the beginning of 2023 she’s been continuing this work as research operations manager at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) where she’s also helping to set up the structure of the new department, in particular, the set up of a cooperative research network for the department as well as its events and the guest programme. She is associated with the Decision Theatre (c) by Arizona State University (ASU) and coordinates the collaboration between ASU and MPI-GEA. From January 2023 to August 2024 she was part of the organising committee of the conference “Crossing Boundaries 2024: The Anthropocene. Addressing its challenges for humanity—crossing the boundaries of science”, the inaugural conference of MPI-GEA which took place in June, 2024. She is a member of the Anthropocene Commons e.V. and a volunteer for the Environmental Detectives project of the Bürgerstiftung Berlin. She is currently working on her bachelor’s degree in psychology. Lina is interested in the study of collective decision-making processes and the meaning and functions of rituals and customs in social transformation processes.