Curriculum Vitae
Academic Experience
- Since 09/2024 (Full) Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science (ISS) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
- 04/2020 - 09/2024 Associate Professor in Sociology (Organization and Technology) at the Department of Sociology and Political Science (ISS) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
- 09/2019 - 03/2020 Affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Political Science (ISS) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
- 09/2015 - 03/2020 Research Associate at the Chair for Sociology, especially Sociology of Organizations, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany.
- 02/2017 - 04/2017 Guest Researcher at Score (Stockholm centre for organizational research), Sweden.
- 10/2014 - 03/2017 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany (in each winter term).
- 12/2013 - 11/2016 Research Associate at the Chair for Inter-Firm-Cooperation (Prof. Jörg Sydow), Department of Management, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
- 10/2011 - 09/2012 Research Assistant in the Cognitronics & Sensor Systems group of the Cluster of Excellence – Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany.
Education
- 02/2015 - 03/2018 Doctorate in Sociology (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany.
- 10/2009 - 11/2013 M.A. Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany.
- 02/2011 - 05/2011 Studies in European Societies, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
- 10/2006 - 09/2009 B.A. Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany.
Awards
- Winner of the EGOS Best Paper Award 2016 of the European Group for Organizational Studies (with Jörg Sydow, Olivier Berthod, and Ryan Hagen).
- Nominated for the EGOS Best Student Paper Award 2017 of the European Group for Organizational Studies.
- Performance bonus from the Helmut Schmidt University for “outstanding, exceptional performance” in 2017 & 2018.
- Finalist at the Most Inspirational Paper Awards 2024 of the European Academy of Management (together with Jörg Sydow, Olivier Berthod, & Gordon Müller-Seitz).
- Winner of an Outstanding Reviewer Award in the 2024 Emerald Literati Awards for my reviewing work Kybernetes.
- Wiley Top Downloaded Article “Membership and contributorship in organizations: An update of modern systems theory”.
One of the most downloaded papers among work published between 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020.
Memberships & Institutional Service
- International Sociological Association (ISA)
- President of the Research Committee “Sociology of Organizations” of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
- Representative at the ISA Research Council.
- Member of the Research Council Webinar Working Group.
- Scientific Network "Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing".
- European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).
- German Sociological Association (DGS), Section on Organizational Sociology.
- Head of the "Organization & Society" Research Group at the Department of Sociology and Political Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. (since 2021)
- 2023-2024: Member of the Research Committee (Forskningsutvalget) of the Department of Sociology and Political Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
- 2019-2020: Member of the senate committee for research and junior scholars at Helmut Schmidt University, Germany.
- 2017-2018: Substitute member of the academic senate at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany.
Peer Review Service
Editorial Memberships
- Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Organizational Sociology (since 2022)
- Managing Board Member of the PCI Organization Studies (since 2023)
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Organizational Ethnography (since 2023)
- Associate Editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (since 2022)
- Senior Editor of M@n@gement (2020-2022)
Ad-hoc Reviews
- Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik
- Berliner Journal für Soziologie
- British Journal of Sociology
- Business & Society
- Environmental Policy & Governance
- European Management Journal
- Human Relations
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
- Information Technology & People
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
- International Journal of Management Reviews
- International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
- International Review of Sociology
- Journal of Business Ethics
- Journal of Management Inquiry
- Journal of Management Studies
- Kybernetes
- Leviathan
- M@n@gement
- Multisensory Research
- Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
- Organization
- Organization Studies
- Organization Theory
- Regulation & Governance
- Scandinavian Journal of Management
- Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Social Sciences
- Societies
- Sociological Inquiry
- Studies in Communication and Media
- Sustainability
- Systemic Practice and Action Research
- Systems Research and Behavioral Science
- Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
- Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Conference Organization
- Program Coordinator (with Christopher Dorn) for the conference program of the Research Committee “Sociology of Organizations” at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 in Rabat, Morocco, July 2025.
- Co-organization of the sub-theme “[SWG 01] The (Partial) Organization of Meta-Organizations” at the 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 (with Héloïse Berkowitz & Nils Brunsson), July 2024.
- Program committee member of the NEON-dagene 2023 on "Organizing in changing landscapes: Threats, challenges, and novel opportunities?" in Trondheim, Norway, November 2023.
- Co-organizer (with Siri Øyslebø Sørensen and Jonas A. Ingvaldsen) of the NEON workshop for early-career scholars at the NEON-dagene 2023 in Trondheim, Norway, November 2023.
- Co-organizer of the track "New forms of organization in times of uncertainty" at the NEON-dagene 2023 in Trondheim, Norway, November 2023.
- Co-organizer of the track "Organizing Exclusion: Tackling Inequities by Dealing with Organizations" at the NEON-dagene 2023 in Trondheim, Norway, November 2023.
- Program Coordinator (with Robert van Krieken) for the conference program of the Research Committee “Sociology of Organizations” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023 in Melbourne, Australia, June/July 2023.
- Co-organization of the three sessions on “How Organizations Make People: Identities, Subjectivities, and Agencies” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023 in Melbourne, Australia (with Leopold Ringel & Kathia Serrano Velarde)
- Co-Organizer of the International Conference on Organizational Sociology (ICOS) on "Organizations in a Plural Society" in Trondheim, Norway, December 2022 (with Nadine Arnold, Cristina Besio, Uli Meyer, & Kurt Rachlitz)
- Co-organization of the sub-theme “Doing Sociology in Organization Studies” at the 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022 (with Kathia Serrano Velarde & Mikaela Sundberg) in Vienna, Austria, July 2022.
- Co-organization of the sub-theme “Organization outside Formal Organizations: Settings, Practices, and Processes” at the 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021 (with Nils Brunsson & David Seidl), virtual, July 2021.
- Co-organization of the virtual Annual Conference of the Section on Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association, June 2021 (with Stefan Kirchner), virtual, June 2021.
- Co-organization of the virtual pre-conference workshop "Contemporary Research in Organizational Sociology" previous to the Annual Conference of the Section on Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association, June 2021 (with Kathia Serrano Velarde)
- Program Coordinator (with Robert van Krieken) for the conference program of the Research Committee “Sociology of Organizations” at the ISA Forum of Sociology 2020 in Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Co-organization of the session “Organization and Decision: Implications for Organization Theory” at the ISA Forum of Sociology 2020 in Porto Alegre, Brazil (with Cristina Besio, Karina Roglio, & Eduardo Villar)
- Co-organization of the session “The Relevance of Meta-Organizations” at the ISA Forum of Sociology 2020 in Porto Alegre, Brazil (with Göran Ahrne, Héloïse Berkowitz, Nils Brunsson)
- Co-organization of the sub-theme “Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Unconventional Forms of Organization” at the 36th EGOS Colloquium 2020 (with Héloïse Berkowitz & Annachiara Longoni)
- Co-organization of the sub-theme “Organization and Decision: Facing the theoretical challenge of a changing organizational world” at the 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019 (with Cristina Besio & Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen)
- Co-organization of the workshop “Meta-, Macro-, Partial Organization: Advances in Research and Theory” in May 2019 in Toulouse, France (with Héloïse Berkowitz)
- Co-organization of the open topic stream of the Spring Conference of the Section on Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association, April 2019 in Hamburg (with Stefan Kirchner)
- Co-organization of the two-part session “Organizing Organizations: Meta-Organizations and Their Role in Modern Society” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, Toronto, Canada (with Göran Ahrne & Nils Brunsson)
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