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Doctoral Candidates at the MCTS
The MCTS offers a platform for doctoral candidates who use interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches in their doctoral projects to analyze the relationships between science, technology and society.
The following doctoral candidates are currently pursuing PhD degrees at the MCTS
Antonakaki, Melpomeni
Audit epistemologies: How response-ability became an engineering issue in stem cell biotechnologies
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Birdal, Cansu
Co-Shaping of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Situational Analysis of Co-Living Spaces
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller
Braun, Maximilian
Governance and Ethics in Embodied Artificial Intelligence Research
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller
Breuer, Svenja
Tracing Imaginaries of AI through Policy & Practice
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller
Buchholz, Johan
“Finally a project which goes according to plan – so far” – how organizations evaluate internal digitalization projects
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Clare, Amy
Technotransplantation: Critters, Care, and CRISPR-CAS9
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller
Clormann, Michael
(Re-)Exploring Places: „New Space” as a Material-discursive Sustainability Practice
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Drewlani, Tobias
Imagining Organizations. The Performativity of Models in Engineering Sciences
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Dzhimova, Mariya
Translating Virtual Reality into an Artistic Medium
Supervised by: PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth
Frahm, Nina Maria
Responsible Innovation in Transnational Governance Settings
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer
Kuttler, Tobias
Mobile Spaces and the Politics of Urban Sustainability and Inclusion in the Global South. Whose Commons are we talking about?
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen / Prof. Dr. Sven Kesselring
Mayer, Henning
Sociality as Code. Innerworlds of Social Robotics
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Mendes, Claudia
Improvising a Light House. Economisation of Collective Concerns in an EU Smart City Project
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farias
Müller, Peter
How does Technology do itself? A strange (MCTS) Romance of Love, Fear, Trust, Hybridity, and (obviously) Technology Doings
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Özkan, Oguz
Integration of high-intensity laser research in Europe
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer
Orrego, Santiago
Times Square and the Infrastructures of the Public
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías
Pollozek, Silvan
Logistics of Migration. On the Role of (Digital) Infrastructures and Contemporary Border Regimes
Supervised by: PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth
Remter, Felix
Ontological Politics and Resonance-Devices in the Human-Honeybee Crisis
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Rossmann, Sophia
Toxic Entanglements. A Situated Analysis of Epigenetic Knowledge Production in Environmental Toxicology.
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller
Rueß, Anja
Co-Creating Publics: Living Lags and the Politics of Urban Experimentation
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller
Ruge, Luise
Understanding Regional Innovation Cultures: A Comparison of Three German City-Regions
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer
Schneider, Marlise
Lost regions of Innovation
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer
Strotmann, Marc
Towards the technical condition in the neurosciences
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Wenten, Klara-Aylin
“Now, with the tools available, anyone can change the world” An enquiry into the Maker Movement and its practices.
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Weller, Kevin
Drone-Building in(-between) prototypical milieus
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen
Willem, Theresa
Embedding Ethics. Lessons from an ethicist`s participation in ML-HCAs development
Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller