Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - General Sociology

Stay as Thomas-Mann-Fellow in the Thomas-Mann-House, Los Angeles

Awarded with the Academy Medal of the Heidelberger Academy of sciences

since 2020

Full Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at Hum­boldt-Uni­versität zu Berlin

Awarded with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of the German-Research-Foundation               
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Offer of a full professorship (W 3) for Social Theory and Cultural Socio­logy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (accepted)

2018

Invitation as Thomas-Mann-Fellow in  the Thomas-Mann-House, Los Angeles

2018

Selection of the book "The Society of Singularities" for the shortlist of the Leipzig Book Fair prize

2018

Awarded for the book "The Society of Singularities" in the programm "International Humanities" of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels)

2017

Awarded for the book "The Society of Singularities" with the Bavarian Book Prize as best non-ficiton book

since 2016
 

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Kultur­­wissen­­schaft­­liche Gesell­­schaft (KWG)

Awarded the Opus Magnum grant of the Volkswagen Foundation (duration 2015- 2017)

Member of the Council of the German Sociological Association (DGS)

Member of the advisory board of the sociological internet portal 'Soziopolis'

Member of the board of trustees for the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main

Offer of a full professorship (W 3) for Socio­logical Theory and Cultural Socio­logy at the Technical University of Dresden (rejected)

Visiting professor at the University of Witten/­Herdecke

Award for the book "The Invention of Creativity" in the program "International Humanities" of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels)

Visiting Professor at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of Language and Literature

Member of the advisory board 'Wissenschaft und Zeitgeschehen' of the Goethe-Institut

Offer of a full professorship for Cultural Sociology (W 3) at the University of Mainz and the award of a Gutenberg Research Fellowship (2011 declined)

Full Professor for Comparative Cultural Sociology at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Fellow at the AKH research community for the study of the ancient world (Alter­tums­wissen­schaft­liches Kolleg) at the University of Heidelberg

Visiting Professor at the Graduate School 'History and Sociology' at Bielefeld University

Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies (Kultur­wissen­schaftliches Kolleg) at the University of Konstanz

Principal Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center 485 and the Cluster of Excellence 16 at the University of Konstanz

Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna

Member of the scientific advisory board of the 'Zeitschrift für Soziologie'; member of the board of the section 'Sociological Theory' of the DGS

'Significantly involved scientist' in the Cluster of Excellence 16 'Cultural Foundations of Integration' at the University of Konstanz

Full Professor of Social Sociology and Cultural Sociology at the University of Konstanz

Habilitation at the University of Hamburg

Visiting Professor, substituting for the chair of sociological theory at the University of Konstanz

Visiting Professor, substituting for the chair of cultural sociology at the University of Frankfurt (Oder)

Research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg

Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics

Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; DAAD scholarship

Post-Doc at the Free University Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Research Training Group "Comparison of Societies in Historical, Sociological and Ethnological Perspectives"); DFG post-doctoral fellowship

Doctorate as Dr. phil. in Sociology at the University of Hamburg (summa cum laude)

Research assistant at the Institute for Sociology, University of Hamburg

Diploma in Political Science/Sociology at the University of Hamburg

Master of Philosophy in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge (GB)

Studied sociology, political science, and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge; scholarship of the Studienstiftung

born in Witten