Since 04/2020 Associate Professor of 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.
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.
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.
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)