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Curriculum

Research interests

Science communication, science studies, climate communication, sociology of interaction, sociology of organisations, inter- and transdisciplinarity, governance of science and technology, qualitative methodologies.

Current positions

  • since 2025

    Head of the Centre for Knowledge Exchange(zwt) at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Bonn & Hamburg

  • since 2025

    Professor (W3) of Sociology with a focus on Science Communication and Museum Development at the University of Hamburg

Reviews, consultancy work, board roles and memberships

  • since 2023: Scientific Committee, Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), Hannover/Berlin
  • since 2022: Editor, JCOM - Journal of Science Communication
  • 2022–2026: Scientific Programme Committee, KlimaCampus Colloquium, Hamburg
  • 2020–2025: Editor, WIREs Climate Change (section “The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge”)
  • Member of numerous professional associations, doctoral and appointment committees
  • Reviewer for all major journals in the field of science communication and science studies

Academic qualifications

  • 2024

    Habilitation and venia legendi at the University of Hamburg, Germany (Sociology)

  • 2008

    Doctorate Degree (Dr. phil. nat.) at the Bielefeld University, Germany (Sociology of Science, summa cum laude)

  • 2003

    Diploma at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
    (Biology, with distinction)

Careers

  • since 2025

    Head of the Centre for Knowledge Exchange (zwt) at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Bonn & Hamburg, Germany

  • since 2025

    Professor (W3) of Sociology with a focus on Science Communication and Museum Development at the University of Hamburg, Germany

  • 2017–2025

    Professor (W1) of Sociology with a focus on Science Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany

  • 2013–2016

    Project Head (Postdoc), Integrated Activity “Understanding Science in Interaction”, DFG Cluster of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction” (CliSAP), University of Hamburg, Germany

  • 2009–2013

    Project Head (Postdoc), “The Production and Representation of Knowledge in the Context of Medialisation” within the BMBF funding programme “New Governance of Science – Research into the Relationship between Science, Politics and Society”, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany

Awards

  • 2025: University of Hamburg Teaching Award for the interdisciplinary Master’s programme “Researching and Shaping Climate Futures”, Shortlist
  • 2025: 3rd prize for the best academic paper at the DGPuK Annual Meeting
  • 2018: Teaching Award for "Uncertain 2 Degrees", University of Hamburg
  • 2017: Teaching Award for "Scales in the Climate System", Universitätslabor Lehrlabor, University of Hamburg
  • 2015: Fulbright Fellowship Grant, Fulbright Foundation
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