Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
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Professor of Science Studies and Innovation Research
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Office hours
- Consultation hours will be held by phone or zoom during the 2021 summer term.
- To make an appointment, please send me an email.
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focus areas
- New forms of responsible knowledge production: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, participation
- Correlation between innovation activity and societal legitimacy of research: a new "social contract" with science
- Science and technology-related governance of selves and socialities, e.g., neurogovernmentality or social robotics.
academic career
Since 2021
Director of the Knowledge Exchange Agency at University of Hamburg (UHH)
Since 2020
Professur of Science Studies and Innovation Research at UHH
2014 - 2020
Director of the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2013 - 2020
Chair for Sociology of Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2010-2013
Full Professor for Sociology of Science at the University of Basel, CH
2001 - 2009
Professor for Sociology of Science at the University of Basel, CH (Tenure Track)
2001
Habilitation in Sociology, University of Bielefeld
1996
PHD in Sociology, University of Bielefeld
1987
Diploma in Sociology, University of Bielefeld
publications (selection)
- Maasen, Sabine (2020): Innovation und Relevanz. Forschung im Gerangel widerstreitendender Anforderungen. In: Horatschek, A. M. (Hg.) Competing Knowledges on a Global Scale – Comparative Perspectives. Berlin et al.: De Gruyter, S. 124-141.
- Maasen, Sabine (2019): Collaborating In and Beyond Science. In: von Sass, Hartmut: Between / Beyond / Hybrid. New Essays on Transdisciplinarity, Diaphanes: Zürich, S. 101-124
- Maasen, Sabine; Dickel, Sascha (2019): Normative answers – epistemic questions. Updating the science-society contract. In: Simon, D.; Kuhlmann, S.; Stamm, J.; Canzler, W. (eds.): Handbook on Science and Public Policy. Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, S. 49-66.
- Maasen, Sabine (2018): Human Brain Project: Ethics Management statt Prozeduralisierung von Reflexivität? In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 41(3), S. 222-237
- Maasen, Sabine; Steinbach, Xenia (2018): Oxytocin: Vom Geburts- zum Sozialhormon. In: NTM – Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 26(1), S. 1-30
- Maasen, Sabine (2017): Neuroprothesen, Neurofeedback, Neurogadgets. Zur Subjektivierung mit Neuro-Objekten. In: Behemoth – A Journal for Civilisation, 10(1), S. 154-170.
- With Harald Atmanspacher (Ed.) (2016): Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects. A Handbook, New York: Wiley.
- With Mario Kaiser, Martin Reinhart, Barbara Sutter (Eds.) (2012), Handbuch Wissenschaftssoziologie (Handbook Sociology of Science), Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Fellowships (selection)
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Member of the German "Wissenschaftsrat"
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board "Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen" (WKN)" (Scientific Commission Lower Saxony, Hanover
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Member of the Excellence Council of the University of Hamburg
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Member of the Advisory Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Vienna
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Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Munich
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Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld
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Member of the Advisory Board of the "International Centre for Higher Education Research" (INCHER), Kassel
courses
SoSe 2021:
- Seminar: Von Action Research über Transdisziplinarität bis Co-Creation: Formen und Begründungen partizipativer Forschung
- Seminar: Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft – Szenen einer komplizierten Beziehung