Technology, labor and society – these are the focal points of my chair and have been the focus of my research. As sociologist I am interested in the workings between laboour and technology in companies. This includes the repercussions technological transformations can have on society. This is why I am researching the drivers and contradictions of the transformation of labor. This is one of the points why me and my team are teaching at the Nuremberg Campus of Technology.
Before starting teaching at the FAU I used to be a professor for sociology at the university of Hohenheim starting 2014. From 2010 to 2014 I was professor for innovation and creative development at the Hochschule München and from 2000 to 2010 I worked at the institute for social research in Munich (ISF Munich)
I studies sociology, philosophy and psychology at the FeU in Hagen but before that I worked as toolworker in mechanical engineering and the automobile industry. My first connecting points to digitalisation have been with CNC and CAM. Toolmaker and sociologist work well together: both occupations require analystic percision and devotion, planning and a feel for the “object”.
My masters degreen focused on the internet as my object of research and its medium. With my promotion in 2003 I took on reflexive informatisation and my PhD took the dialectics of fabric and body, especially in the digital world, as its main topic. Digitalisation and industry 4.0 are a natural focal point of my research.
