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Research and activities

Scientific functions

Member at Marburg Center for Digital Culture and Infrastructure (MCDCI)
Member at Zentrum für Synthetische Mikrobiologie (SYNMIKRO), since summer semester 2022 deputy member of the directorate
Member of the editorial board of Soziale Systeme: Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie
Specialised editor of Soziopolis by the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS)
Member at Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) and the sections Sociological Theory and Sociology of Law

Reviewer for the following journals

Anthropological Theory
Behemoth: A Journal on Civilization
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
British Medical Journal: Medical Humanities
Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Leviathan: Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften
Global Society
Health, Risk & Society
International Political Sociology
Millenium: Journal of International Studies
Security Dialogue
Soziale Systeme: Zeitschrift für Soziologische Theorie
Soziale Welt
Subjectivity
Theory, Culture & Society
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Utrecht Law Review
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen
Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie
Zeitschrift für Soziologie

Reviewer activities for the following sponsors

Alexander von Humbodt Stiftung
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) der Norwegischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF)
Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF)
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)

Current research projects

Principal Investigator of the project "Die Verwaltung der Kontaktverfolgung unter COVID-19: Eine Analyse der Containment Scouts und der Mobile Tracing App aus Sicht der Gesundheitsämter" funded by the Bundesministerium für Gesundheit via Robert Koch-Institut

Member of the SFB/TRR 138 Dynamics of Security, head of the sub-project "Die pandemische Situation: Gesundheitssicherheit und die Politik epidemiologischer Daten",
duration from 2022 to 2025

Completed research projects (selection)

Principal Investigator of the project "Symbiotische Kollektive - Die Kultivierung mikrobieller Lebenswelten als Gesatltung bio-sozialer Beziehungen" (with Andreas Folkers), funded by Volkswagenstiftung 2018-2021

Principal Investigator of the project "Die Verwaltung transnationaler Gesundheitskrisen: Routinen der Sicherheit in der Regulierung von Ansteckungsdynamiken" as part of the SFB/TRR 138 "Dynamiken der Sicherheit", 2018-2021.

Co-applicant of the project "Kollektive und individuelle Bedrohungswahrnehmung in gefährlichen Zeiten", funded within UMRvernetzt, 2019 (with Erik Müller-Reh)

Member of the network Regulating Time: New Perspectives on Regulation, Law and Temporalities, 2015-2017, based at Kent University

Member of the young scientists network Szenographie des Subjekts, 2011-2012 funded by Volkswagenstiftung, 2013-2015 funded by DFG

Member of the Management Committee of the EU-COST Action „International Law Between Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation: The Role of Law in the Post- National Constellation“ and member of the associated working group „Law and Uncertainty“, 2011-2015

Principal Investigator of the research project „Global Topologies: Territoriality in Law and Economy” at Universität Hamburg, funded by the faculty Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2012-2013 (with Ute Tellmann)

Member of the „International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies” (ICCM) under the direction of Jef Huysmanns (Open University), Claudia Aradau (Open University), Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh) and Nadine Voelkner (University of Sussex), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, 2010-2012

Organisation of panels

„Terrestrische Existenzweisen: Vitale Räume in der ökologischen Krise", Ad hoc-group at the 40. congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), „Gesellschaft unter Spannung“, September 2020 (with Ute Tellmann). The concept of the Ad hoc-group is available here.

„Environmentalities of Health Security", Open Panel (Nr. 57) at EASST/4S-Conference Locating and Timing Matters in Prague, August 2020 (with Carolin Mezes)

„Reciprocal Capture: Symbiosis As Object And Concept In STS-Research", panel at the 4S Conference Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations in New Orleans, September 2019 (with Andreas Folkers)

„Symbiose als Begriff und Gegenstand der Soziologie”, Ad hoc-groupe at the 39. congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) in Göttingen, Oktober 2018 (with Andreas Folkers). The concept of the Ad hoc-group with the lecture titles is available here.

„Die Politik der Natur in der globalen Krise: Zu Bruno Latours neuer Sozialtheorie“, Ad hoc-groupe at the 37. congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) („Routinen der Krise - Krise der Routinen“) in Trier, Oktober 2014 (with Lars Gertenbach and Ute Tellmann)

„Konnektivität – Über Logiken der Verbindung in der modernen Gesellschaft", Ad hoc-groupe at the 36. congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) („Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt“) in Dortmund and Bochum, Oktober 2012 (with Julian Müller and Ute Tellmann)

„Inklusionskämpfe: Der Mensch an den Grenzen des Weltrechts", panel at the 2. congress of the deutschsprachige Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen in Vienna, September 2011 (with Britta Leisering)

„Global Topologies“, panel at the conference „Changing Cultures – Cultures of Change“ (December 2009) at University of Barcelona, organised in collaboration with Goldsmiths College (London) (with Urs Stäheli and Ute Tellmann)

„Tod in der Theorie: Krieg – Regierung – Ökonomie“, panel at the conference of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Soziologie (SGS) in Basel, September 2007 (with Ute Tellmann)

Organisation of workshops and conferences

„Securing Epidemic Ecologies: Spaces of Disease Control in Historical Perspective", international workshop at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, December 2021 (with Carolin Mezes and Andrea Wiegeshoff). The programme can be found here.

„Symbiotische Kollektive: Symbiose als soziologisches Konzept", workshop at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Oktober 2019 (with Andreas Folkers). The programme can be found here.

„Localizing Global Security: Technologies, Protocols, Infrastructures", international conference in cooperation wih the SFB „Dynamics of Security", May 2017 (with Thorsten Bonacker). The programme can be found here.

„The Materiality of Law and Security: An Inquiry into Bruno Latour’s Sociological Anthropology of Modernity“, COST-Workshop at the Universität Hamburg, Oktober 2014, among others with Emilie Cloatre (Kent Law School), Marieke de Goede (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Alain Pottage (LSE) and Niels Werber (Universität Siegen) (with Susanne Krasmann)

„Thinking Infrastructures After the Material Turn: Connectivity, Topology, Collectivity", international conference at the Universität Hamburg, May 2013, among others with Claudia Aradau (King’s Collge), Jonathan Bach (New School), Stephen Collier (New School), Monika Dommann (UZH), Stephen Graham (Newcastle), Celia Lury (Warwick) and Brian Larkin (Columbia) (with Ute Tellmann, Sylvie Rham and Urs Stäheli)

„Security Dispositifs: Space – Technology – Event“, international workshop at the Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, May 2012, among others with Peter Adey (Royal Holloway), Ben Anderson (Durham University), Luis Lobo-Guerrero (University of Groningen), Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh), Susanne Krasmann (Universität Hamburg), Burkhardt Wolf (HU Berlin), Chris Zebrowski (Loughborough University) (with Ulrich Bröckling, Stefan Kaufmann and Serhat Karakayali)

„Operations of the Global – Explorations of Connectivity“, conference at the Universität Hamburg, Oktober 2011, among others with Celia Lury (Warwick), Bill Maurer (Irvine), Brett Neilson (University of Western Sidney), Tony D. Sampson (University of East London) (with Urs Stäheli and Ute Tellmann)

„Global Topology and Territoriality: Border as a Method in Law and Economy“, workshop at the University of Bologna, February 2010, with a keynote by Carlo Galli (Bologna) (with Sandro Mezzadra and Ute Tellmann)

„Inklusion/Exklusion: Theoretische Perspektiven“, workshop at the Universität Basel, May 2007 (with Sina Farzin)