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| 2003 - | Dean for Teaching. |
| 2001 - | Co-director of the research section "Technology and Innovativeness". |
| 2000 - | Head of the institute of sociology. Head of the interdisciplinary research center for technology and society. |
| 1999 - | Full professor (C4) of sociology and social studies of technology at the Technische Universität Berlin. |
| Social theory | (pragmatism, agency, technologies of society). |
| Technology studies | (social shaping of technologies, technographies of man-machine-program-constellations). |
| Innovation studies | (regimes, networks, tempi, and biographies of innovation). |
| Socionics | (distributed agency, hybrid systems, socio-technical design, ubiquitious computing). |
| Science studies | (knowledge regimes, styles of knowing). |
| 2007 | Resident fellow of the reserach group "Science in the Context of Application" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. |
| 2006 - | Member of the excellence cluster initiative "Human-Centric Communication", TU Berlin with computer science and electrical engineering. |
| 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. |
| 2005 | Invited guest professor at Stanford University, Department of History (of Technology and Science) and SCANCOR. |
| 1999-2005 | Co-founder of the research program "Socionics - Inquiring and Modelling of Artificial Societies" (DFG). |
| 1991-1999 | Full Professor (C 3) of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). |
| 1996 | Head of the Institute of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty |
| 1993-2002 | Member of the postgraduate-college "Comparing Societies: From a Historical, Ethnological, and Sociological Perspective" (DFG). |
| 1990 | Appointment to the position of a full professor for "Science Studies" at the University of Nürnberg/Erlangen: not accepted. |
| 1988 | Habilitation at the University of Bielefeld: "A Sociological Perspective on Technology" (Gert Schmidt, Peter Weingart, Burkart Lutz, Niklas Luhmann) venia legendi: Sociology. |
| 1984-1990 | Managing editor of the "Zeitschrift für Soziologie". |
| 1981 | Dissertation: "Social Dynamics of Technological Development" (Gert Schmidt, Claus Offe). |
| 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". |
| 1975-1978 | Research assistant at the Sociological Research Insitute (SOFI) in Göttingen (industrial sociology, sociology of work). |
| 1974-1975 | Research fellow at the management school of Northwestern University, Ill., Chicago and at Bielefeld University. |
| 1973 | Diploma in sociology, Bielefeld University (Peter Weingart, Niklas Luhmann). |
| 2007 | "Technology in Action"(DFG). |
| 2006 | "Personal Information Assistants for Scientific Communities"(e-science, BMFT). |
| 2006 | "Social Aspects of Cooperating Objects Technologies", International Workshop (Roadmap-Project, EU). |
| 2004-2007 | "The Anthropological Difference of Consciousness: Comparing Humans and Animals" (DFG), under the direction of PD. Dr. Gesa Lindemann. |
| 2004 | "Innovation and Diversity - Epistemic and Institutional Changes in the Knowledge Society", (International Conference, Volkswagen Foundation). |
| 2002-2004 | "On the Threshold of Urban Panopticon? Social Impacts of Video-Surveillance in Five Countries" (EU). |
| 2001-2004 | "Routines and Risks in Socio-Technical Systems" (Research cluster on "Cooperation and Safety in High-Tech Systems: The Case of Surgery",TU Berlin). |
| 1999-2005 | "Integration of Cooperative Agents in Complex Organizations"(Socionics, DFG). |
| 1989-1992 | "The Construction and the Implementation of Expert Systems - Effects on Knowledge, Communication, and Organization" (TA, BMFT). |
| 1989-1990 | "The Rise of High Technologies and the Paradigm of Communication" (BMFT). |
| 1987-1989 | "Computer Use in Everyday Life - Its Social and Cultural Consequences" (NRW-Program "Man and Technology - Sozialverträgliche Technikentwicklung"). |
| 1985-1986 | "Organizational Strategies of Product Innovation" (University of Bielefeld). |
As Research assistant
| 1975-1978 |
"Problems of Un-Qualified Work" (SOFI Göttingen, Humanization of Work, BMFT). |
| 1973-1974 |
"Technology and the Institutionalization of Scientific Work in High Energy Physics" (University of Bielefeld, Science Studies, Pilot-Study at CERN, Chicago, New York and Washington, Volkswagen Foundation). |
| 1973 |
"Technology in History and Society" (Volkswagen Foundation). |
| 2006- | Evaluation committee of the German Wissenschaftsrat (WR). |
| 2002-2007 | Evaluation committee of SFB "Reflexive Modernization" (DFG). |
| 2002- | Scientific advisory board of the Berlin science center of the social sciences. |
| 1999- | Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). |
| 1994- | European Association of Science and Technology Studies (EASST). |
| 1993-1997 | Management committee COST A4 "Social Shaping of Technologies" (EU). |
| 1992-1997 | Head of the section "Science and Technology Studies" of the German society of sociology (DGS). |
International cooperation
| Stanford University, SCANCOR (Walter W. Powell). | |
| University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology (Paul Rabinow). | |
| Southern Illinois University, Dewey Center (Larry Hickman). | |
| State University New York (SUNY, Don Ihde, Wolf Schäfer). | |
| San Francisco University, Sociology of Medicine (Adele Clarke). | |
| University of Santa Cruz (Geoff Bowker, Susan L. Star). | |
| University of Edinburgh (Robin Williams, Alexandru Preda). | |
| University of Twente (Arie Rip, Stefan Kuhlmann). | |
| Austrian Academy of the Sciences, (Technology Assessment, Michael Nentwich). | |
| TA-Swiss und ETH Zürich (Alfred Kündig). |
Editorships
| 2007-2009 | Managing Editor of "SOZIOLOGISCHE REVUE". |
| 2004-2009 | Editor of "SOZIOLOGISCHE REVUE". |
| 1984-1990 | Managing Editor of "ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR SOZIOLOGIE". |
| 1982-2000 | Editor of the Yearbooks "TECHNIK UND GESELLSCHAFT". |
| 1979-1982 | Editor of "MEHRWEHRT. Zeitschrift für politische Ökonomie". |
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