Lukas Doil is a historian at the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History. He is conducting research on the transformation of work in German contemporary history, with a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation until the end of 2025. In his dissertation, which he plans to complete at Schloss Wiepersdorf, he examines the history of precarious work using the example of temporary work in the Federal Republic of Germany since the 1970s. Using a discourse analysis grounded in social history, the work examines the reasons for the rise of temporary work from its illegality in the 1960s to its role as a key instrument of the most consequential social reform of the recent past (“Agenda 2010”). The focus is on questions of subjectification, migrantization, control, deregulation, and transformation.

He has published on the history of labor, gender and cultural history, and public history, and has been awarded the Faculty Prize of the University's Faculty of Philosophy, among other honors. He is an active volunteer in the Education and Science Union in Brandenburg and is also committed to a critical culture of remembrance.