Research Fellows

Prof. Dr. Christer Pursiainen is Professor of Societal Safety and Security at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway since 2014. Previously he has worked in such institutions, among others, as the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra, IT), Council of the Baltic Sea States (Stockholm, SE), the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy (Moscow, RF), the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Stockholm, SE), and the Finnish Institute of International Aaffairs (Helsinki, FI). He is currently doing research related to critical infrastructure resilience, crisis management and risk assessment.

Prof. Vando Borghi is Professor of Sociology of Economic processes, Work and Organization at the University of Bologna. His research is concerned with the interaction between policies, institutions and social practices and is conducted on different empirical grounds. In recent years, his research has been mainly focused on the interrelationships between labour, infrastructure and capitalism. Moreover, he carries out research into the way public action, knowledge and citizens’ capability interact. He has been fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Avancées in Nantes and visiting scholar at Institut für Soziologie in Freiburg and at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Buenos Aires. He is Chief of the journal Sociologia del Lavoro.

Prof. Dr. Christer Pursiainen is Professor of Societal Safety and Security at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway since 2014. Previously he has worked in such institutions, among others, as the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra, IT), Council of the Baltic Sea States (Stockholm, SE), the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy (Moscow, RF), the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Stockholm, SE), and the Finnish Institute of International Aaffairs (Helsinki, FI). He is currently doing research related to critical infrastructure resilience, crisis management and risk assessment.

Dr. Antônio Inácio Andrioli has been campus director and vice rector at the FederalUniversity of Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Brasil, which he has helped build since its inception in 2009. He is an expert on research involving transgenic soybean and its social and environmental effects on Brazilian farmers. His main research interests focus on family farming, organic agriculture and sustainable development.

Dr. Antônio Inácio Andrioli has been campus director and vice rector at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Brasil, which he has helped build since its inception in 2009. He is an expert on research involving transgenic soybean and its social and environmental effects on Brazilian farmers. His main research interests focus on family farming, organic agriculture and sustainable development.

Prof. Leland Glenna, Ph.D. is professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at Penn State University. His main research focusses on agriculture and natural resources, especially social and social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research.

Prof. Klaus Weber, Ph.D. is Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. His main research focusses on the dynamics of organizational and institutional sustainability transitions; the interactions between social movements, corporations, and markets; and economic globalization.

Prof. Leland Glenna, Ph.D. is professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at Penn State University. His main research focusses on agriculture and natural resources, especially social and social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research.

Prof. Dr. Ève Chiapello, Research Director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and co-author of the book "The New Spirit of Capitalism", received the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2016 and since then has been researching at the CSS (formerly CGG) together with Prof. Dr. Anita Engels and other WISO scientists. As a researcher she is primarily concerned with the critique of capitalism and the far-reaching process of financialisation, i.e. the change in economic, political and social practices and decisions through the influence of financial knowledge and regulations.

Prof. Dr. Ève Chiapello, Research Director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and co-author of the book "The New Spirit of Capitalism", received the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2016 and since then has been researching at the CSS (formerly CGG) together with Prof. Dr. Anita Engels and other WISO scientists. As a researcher she is primarily concerned with the critique of capitalism and the far-reaching process of financialisation, i.e. the change in economic, political and social practices and decisions through the influence of financial knowledge and regulations.

Dr. Mario Neukirch is a research fellow at the department of sociology of organization and innovation of the University of Stuttgart. He is dealing with the long-term structural change in energy systems, including root causes, technologies, conflicts, and power structures.

Prof. Dr. Ève Chiapello, Research Director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and co-author of the book "The New Spirit of Capitalism", received the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2016 and since then has been researching at the CGG together with Prof. Dr. Anita Engels and other WISO scientists. As a researcher she is primarily concerned with the critique of capitalism and the far-reaching process of financialisation, i.e. the change in economic, political and social practices and decisions through the influence of financial knowledge and regulations.

Dr. Oliver Geden is a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology (Hamburg) and the CGG (April – October 2018). His main areas of research are EU energy policy, the European Union, climate governance, policy regimes. His home affiliation is Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. During his time in Hamburg, he will collaborate with colleagues at the CGG on questions of climate governance. 

Dr. Mario Neukirch is a research fellow at the department of sociology of organization and innovation of the University of Stuttgart. He is dealing with the long-term structural change in energy systems, including root causes, technologies, conflicts, and power structres.

Mags Tingey is a part-time PhD researcher and Research Officer in the department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh whose research is about local government strategies for investment in low carbon energy.

Dr. habil. Frank Wendler is a visiting assistant professor at the department of political science and Jackson School at the University of Washington in Seattle. His main research interests are the European Union and related fields like the Europeanization of public policy or Party Politics in the EU. The title of his professorial thesis was “Debating Europe in National Parliaments. Public Justification and Political Polarization”.

Prof. Dr. Ève Chiapello -  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Norimichi Goishi - Osaka City University

Camille Rivière − École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Professor Emily Barman - Associate Professor of sociology, Boston University

Prof. Vincent Della Sala - Professor of political science, University of Trento and Professor at SAIS Europe, Bologna

Professor Guðný Björk Eydal - Professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland

Dr. Jörn Hoppmann - senior researcher, Department of Management, Technology and Economics der ETH Zürich

Per H. Jensen, Ph.D. - Professor of Social Policy, Center for Comparative Welfare Studies (CCWS), Aalborg University (Denmark)

Professor Gabrielle Meagher - Macquarie University (Sidney, Australien

Prof. Dr. Simone Pulver - Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Professor Tine Rostgaard - Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Department of Political Science, Aalborg University (Denmark)

Prof. Dr. Shirley Scott - Associate Professor für Internationale Beziehungen, University of New South Wales in Sidney (Australien)

Prof. Dr. Steven Saxonberg - Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Masaryk University Brno

Prof. Neil Gilbert - University of California/Berkeley

Prof. Jerry Jacobs - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Prof. Lasse Mertins - Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Ren Na - Remnin Universität Pekin

Dr. Nadev Perez-Vaisvidovsky - Post Doc-Wissenschaftler, Lecturer und Direktor des Social Policy Committee, School of Social Work, Ashkelon Academic College und Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University

Prof. Klaus Petersen - University of Southern Denmark

Prof. Ole Jacob Sending, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs NUPI

Prof. Dr. Hildegard Theobald - Universität Vechta

Prof. Dr. Pieter Vanhuysse - University of Southern Denmark

Prof. Wouter Werner - University of Amsterdam

Prof. Dr. Olga I. Borodkina - Director of «The International Centre of Social Service Studies» at Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University

Chengcheng Chen - PhD candidate, Renmin University of China

Keith Cherry - University of Victoria, Kanada

Dr. Laura von Daniels - Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Andrea Knecht - University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Chen Lei - Ph.D. candidate at the School of Labor and Human Resource, Renmin University of China

Prof. Dr. John W. Meyer - Professor of Sociology; Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Stanford University

Dr. Antía Pérez Caramés - Universidade da Coruña

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer - Assistant Research Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA)

Dr. Matthew B. Ruby - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Prof. Arturo Santa-Cruz - Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexiko

Prof. Dr. William E. Scheuermann - Professor of Political Science and West European Studies, Indiana University (USA)

Prof. Dr. Oliver Schmidtke - Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

Zheng Xiang - Ph.D. candidate at the School of Labor and Human Recources, Renmin University of China