2001 - 2010
| Speaker of the Interdisciplinary Center "Technology and Society" and Director of the Research Unit "Technology and Innovativeness" at the TU Berlin.
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2007
| Resident fellow of the reserach group "Science in the Context of Application" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University.
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2006 - 2010
| Member of the excellence cluster initiative "Human-Centric Communication", TU Berlin with computer science and electrical engineering.
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2006
| One-year personal grant for research (DFG) "Technology-in-Action: Distributed Agency in Hybrid Constellations" with visits at SUNY,Dewey Center, Stanford, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Berkeley.
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2005
| Invited guest professor at Stanford University, Department of History (of Technology and Science) and SCANCOR.
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1999 - 2005
| Co-founder of the DFG-Research Programm "Socionics - Inquiring and Modelling of Artificial Societies".
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1991 - 1999
| Full Professor (C 3) of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin).
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1996
| Head of the Institute of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty
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1993 - 2002
| Member of the postgraduate-college "Comparing Societies: From a Historical, Ethnological, and Sociological Perspective" (DFG).
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1990
| Appointment to the position of a full professor for "Science Studies" at the University of Nürnberg/Erlangen: not accepted.
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1988
| Habilitation at the University of Bielefeld: "A Sociological Perspective on Technology" (Gert Schmidt, Peter Weingart, Burkart Lutz, Niklas Luhmann) venia legendi: Sociology.
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1984 - 1990
| Managing editor of the "Zeitschrift für Soziologie".
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1981
| Dissertation: "Social Dynamics of Technological Development" (Gert Schmidt, Claus Offe).
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1978-1984
| Lecturer at the faculty of sociology at Bielefeld University (organization and technology studies), co-founder and managing director of the research center "Future of Work".
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1975 - 1978
| Research assistant at the Sociological Research Insitute (SOFI) in Göttingen (industrial sociology, sociology of work).
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1974 - 1975
| Research fellow at the management school of Northwestern University, Ill., Chicago and at Bielefeld University.
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1973
| Diploma in sociology, Bielefeld University (Peter Weingart, Niklas Luhmann).
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