Dr. Veit Braun
| Phone: | +49 (0) 821 598 4885 |
| Email: | veit.braun@uni-auni-a.de () |
| Room: | 1213 (I) |
| Open hours: | by prior appointment |
| Address: | Universit?tsstra?e 12, 86159 Augsburg |
research interests
- Sociology of science
- Environmental sociology
- Economic sociology
- Sociology of technology
- Legal sociology
- Sociological theory
research projects
DFG project (individual research grant) “More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen”
Project term: 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2028
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Thesis supervision
I offer supervision (BA and MA) for the topics below. If interested please contact me at least one year before the intended submission so that we can properly discuss, specify and plan your project:
- Solidary forms of work (community gardens, flatshares, soup kitchens, community agriculture) and mental health
- Urban small business (parcel shops, barber shops, cafés, kiosks, restaurants) and their mode of operation
- Organisational sociology of wastewater treatment plants
- Organisational sociology of lost and found offices
- Suhrkamp books as academic capital
- Working conditions of assistant professors without tenure
- Biographical outlook of researchers between 30 and 40
- Technology assessment as experiment: The van den Daele project and its failure
- History and legacy of the Collaborative Research Center 536 “Reflexive Modernization”
Curriculum Vitae
Since 07/2025?Principal investigator (DFG project “More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen”) at the Chair for Environmental Sociology, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse)
11/2019–02/2022?Visiting scholar, Molecular Ecology Lab, Cardiff 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 (Prof. Dr. Michael Bruford)
04/2019–03/2025?Research associate (ERC project “Suspended Life: Exploring Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societies”) in the research group Biotechnologies, Nature and Society, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemke)
02/2019?PhD (Dr. phil) in sociology, thesis ?Seed at the End of Property: Propertisation in Plant Breeding and Its Crises”
01/2019–02/2019?Teaching contract, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
01/2018–02/2018?Visiting PhD student, Kent Law School, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Kent (Dr. Hyo Yoon Kang)
01/2018–12/2018?PhD scholarship, Andrea von Braun Stiftung
05/2015–12/2017?Research associate (BMBF project ?The Language of Biofacts“) Chair for Sociology II, LMU München (Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich)
10/2023–09/2015 MA in sociology, philosophy and environmental studies, LMU Munich
10/2009–09/2013 BA in political science and sociology, 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Vienna and LMU Munich
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