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The following researchers completed their PhD at MCTS

Engels, Franziska
Testing Technologies – Re-configuring Societies. Testing, Contesting, and Materializing Visions of Energy Futures in Two German Test Beds.
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Geipel, Andrea
The Translation of Science on YouTube
Supervised by: PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth

Kleinert, Johanna
Living Products – Fruit and Vegetables as Designed Things
Supervised by: Prof. Fritz Frenkler/Prof. Dr. Karin Zachmann

Lang, Sandra
Chiral Worlds. MCTS perspectives on the shifting fields of chemistry
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Lipp, Benjamin
Interfacing RobotCare. On the Techno-Politics of Innovation
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Nitschke, Luca
Vehicles of resistance?  ̶  Non-commercial carsharing and the socio-ecological mobility transition
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, Prof. Dr. Sven Kesselring

Peters, Pim
How Planners Plan: The Planning and Design of Cycling Infrastructure in Munich
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías

Pöchhacker, Nikolaus
Rule(s) of Recommendation. What the making of a recommender system can tell us about the difficult relation between social order and machine learning.
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth

Samaras, Georgia 
Re-Enacting Stress in the Lab. On Environmental Epigenetics, Social Adversity and the Molecularisation of Mental Health
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller

Schneider, Christoph
Transforming TechKnowledgies: the Case of Open Digital Fabrication
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Schönewolf, Carolin
Disambiguation of Techno-Futures. A Linear Disruption of Autonomous Automobility
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Schröpfer, Anton
The Game of Increasing Societal Expectations towards Science. A specific Gaze on Technical Universities
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Seibt, David
Industrial User Construction: The Introduction of 3D Printing to the Prosthetics Industry
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Servou, Eriketti
Automated driving in the policymaking. The productivity of the void
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen, Prof. Dr. Sven Kesselring

Thiem, Carolin
“It’s about doing something”. On the transformation of private and public issues in participatory issues
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Trachte, Laura
TechnoNatures. Reconfigurations of Food.
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Voss, Laura
Robots Wanted – Dead And/Or Alive. The Attribution of In/Animacy to Robot Technology.
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Wenninger, Andreas
Scientific Boundary Work on the Internet. Case studies of a Blog Portal
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen

Witjes, Nina
The Co-Production of Science, Technology and International Politics: Exploring Emergent Fields of Knowledge and Policy
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller