Research

Curriculum Vitae

• Dr. phil., Sociologist (M.A.), Lawyer (Assessor iur.)
• Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University since 1999
• Member of the Standing Committee "Gemeinsamer Ausschuss zum Umgang mit Sicherheitsrelevanter Forschung" of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (since 2014)
• Member of the Working Group "Umgang mit sicherheitsrelevanten Forschungsergebnissen" of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (2013-2014)
• Member of the German Ethics Council (Deutscher Ethikrat) 2008-2012
• Deputy Director of Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (2010-2014)
• Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, 2005–2007
• Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Sociology 2001–03, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2011–12
• Expert for (among others) Wissenschaftsrat, Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Volkswagen Stiftung, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, EU-Kommission, Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen, OECD, BMBF.
• Executive editor of Zeitschrift für Soziologie 2008-2012, member of the advisory board since 2012
• Member of the Editorial Board of Comparative Sociology
• Co-editor of Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie - The German Journal of Law and Society (Since 2000, Executive editor 2000-2005)
• Co-editor of InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology (2010-2014)
• Co-editor of the series Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (Nomos publishers) (2009-2018)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of TATup - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis - Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory in Practice
• Founder member of Netzwerk Technikfolgenabschätzung (Network Technology Assessment)
• Member (since 2008) and speaker (2014-2016) of the Scientific Advisory Board of ITA (Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
• Member of Kompetenznetzwerk Stammzellforschung NRW (Stem Cell Network North Rhine Westphalia) (2012-2018)
• Member of the PhD funding committee of Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst(until 2008)
• Member of the advisory board of the journal Sozialer Sinn

• Studies in Law and Sociology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
• 1982 First State Examination in Law
• 1985 Magister Artium in Sociology
• 1987 Second State Examination in Law
• 1983–1991 Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), Department of Criminology
• 1985–1987 Legal training at the Administration of Justice in Baden-Wuerttemberg and at the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Berlin, Germany
• 1988 Research contract for the Federal Office of Investigation
• 1991 Dr. phil. (PhD) at the University of Freiburg, Department of Philosophy
• 1991–1998 Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung, WZB), research unit "Standard-Setting and the Environment"
• 1995–1997 Researcher at the Freie Universitaet Berlin
• 1998 Habilitation at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, venia legendi: Soziologie
• since 1999 Professor of sociology at Bielefeld University