Lea Schneidemesser

About

Lea Schneidemesser is an associate researcher at the Weizenbaum-Institute in the Research Group “Working with Artificial Intelligence”. She is a researcher in the department “Sociology of Digital Transformation and Work” at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Lea works on topics related to economic, labor, and industrial sociology, as well as the political economy of knowledge and technology, with a regional focus on Germany and China. She researches the role of technology in the internationalization of Chinese companies in Europe and as well as digital business models and data work in AI implementation processes in manufacturing industries.

From 2020 to 2022, she was a research associate at the WZB in the research group Globalization, Work, and Production where she collaborated with Florian Butollo on research into the use of digital platforms in industrial value chains. She was a member of the research group “Working with Artificial Intelligence” at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin from 2023 to 2025. There, she researched how work is changing through the use of AI. She was also a member of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 294 “Structural Change of Property” at the University of Erfurt from 2021 to 2025, where she researched direct investments by Chinese companies in Germany and the European Union.

Research Group: Working with Artificial Intelligence