CV

Work Experience

since 2020 Professor of Sociology of Technology, European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Spring 2020 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)
2018-2020 “Privatdozent”, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
2015-2020 Research Group Leader, MCTS Post/Doc Lab Digital Media, Technische Universität München
2017-2018 Professor of Sociology of Technology (“Lehrstuhlvertretung”), Universität Passau
2014–2015 Senior Researcher at the Friedrich Schiedel Endowed Chair, Sociology of Science, Technische Universität München.
2014 Visiting Scholar at the DFG Research Training Group “Locating Media”, University of Siegen.
2013–2014 Visiting Scholar, Science and Technology Studies, Pennsylvania State University (USA).
2012–2014 Post-Doctoral Researcher, DFG Research Training Group “Innovation Society Today: The Reflexive Creation of Novelty”, Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin
2010

Invited Fellow, Research Network “Communicating Disaster”, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld
2006–2012

Research Fellow, Bielefeld University, Department of Sociology, Science, Technology and Media Work Group
2005 Visiting Scholar, STS and Social Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA).
2003–2006

Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Department of Sociology, Social Theory and History of Sociology Group
2002–2003

Research Assistant, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, DFG Mainfocusprogram “Socionics”

Education

July 2017 Habilitation, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
2007 Dr. phil. (Magna Cum Laude), University of Hamburg
2003 Magister Artium Sociology (very good), University of Hamburg
1998–2003 Student at the University of Hamburg: sociology, computer science, political science
1997

“Abitur Certificate”, Reichenbach Gymnasium, Ennepetal

1996–1998

Extra-mural student at the Distant Teaching University (Fernuniversität) Hagen: philosophy, political science, linguistic

Memberships (Selection)

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (GWTF), elected member of the board (2020-today)
  • BBAW (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) IAG “Digital Science Communication” (2018–2021)
  • Elected speaker of the BBAW IAG sub-group “Digital Technologies” (2018-2021)
  • Member of the “European PublicSpaces” initiative, now SDEPS Initative (2018–today)
  • Member of scientific advisory board, “Momentum Institute Austria” (2019–heute)
  • Scientific advisory board, “Service Center Media Bielefeld” (2008–2012)
  • Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork (SSTNET)
  • European Sociological Association (ESA): Social Theory Research Network
  • International Sociological Association (ISA): Research Group Historical Sociology
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)

Academic Reviewer (Selection)

  • British Journal of Sociology
  • Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory
  • Ethnography
  • International Political Sociology
  • Nature and Culture
  • New Media and Society
  • New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
  • Qualitative Sociology
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Sociological Theory
  • Space and Culture
  • Tecnoscienza
  • Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie
  • Zeitschrift für Soziologie