Dr. Katja Lehmann
Dr. Katja Lehmann is a theatre director, film maker and performance artist with over 25 years of professional experience, working on large scale opera productions at many of the major opera venues in Europe, as well as leading independent productions with mixed groups of professional and non-professional performers. Her artistic practice ranges from multi-artform performance projects to solo work as a photographer, often focusing on environmental issues or site-specific themes. Since 2012, she also works as a microbial ecologist at the UKCEH, where she researches the effects of anthropogenically-derived disturbances on environmental microbial communities. Dr. Lehmann has a strong record of delivering successful research projects within and outside the UK. She has been/ is involved in projects totalling in excess of GBP 3M (e.g. Micro B3, NEN019687/1, BB/T004681/1), with a number of grants focusing on research to be delivered in LMIC countries in South America/Asia or as citizen science projects. She is an experienced educator, both in artistic and scientific contexts. As well as having run a dance school for Argentine tango between 2003 and 2018, she also regularly gets invited to deliver bioinformatics workshops in a European context, as well as in LMIC countries (for the Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network (DIPnet)). Due to her unique position at the interface of performance art, dance, science and education, she is highly versed in using tools from her different backgrounds in an interdisciplinary context. https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/katja-lehmann
