Frank Hillebrandt

PD Dr. Frank Hillebrandt

Institute of Sociology

 

Curriculum Vitae:

26.04.1966 born in Ibbenbüren
1987-1994 Studies of Pedagogy (degree program: Diplom) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster (Westphalia)
1992-1998 Ph.D. studies of Sociology (major), Pedagogy, Philosophy and Politics at the WWU Münster (Westphalia)
16.02.1994 Diplom (full German degree) in Pedagogy, main focus: Social Pedagogy
1994-1998 Ph.D. student at the Institute of Sociology of the WWU Münster (Westphalia)
1995-1998 Doctoral scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn
20.10.1998 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Sociology at the WWU Münster
1996-2000 Assistant lecturer at the Institute of Sociology of the WWU Münster
1999-2005 Research assistant in the field of technology assessment and technical design (today: Institute of Technology and Society) at the Hamburg University of Technology under the direction of Prof. Dr. Thomas Malsch. Main focuses of the work:
  • Responsible research work in the project “Modellierung sozialer Organisationsformen in VKI und Soziologie. Analyse der Übertragbarkeit der Habitus-Feld-Theorie auf Architekturen und Konzepte der Verteilten Künstlichen Intelligenz” (Shaping of Social Forms of Organisations in DAI and Sociology. Analysis of the Transferability of Bourdieu’s Field Theory to Architectures and Concepts of Distributed Artificial Intelligence; project manager: Michael Florian), which received a 6-year support by the DFG (German Research Foundation) in its programme of emphasis “Socionics”
  • Coordination of the DFG’s programme of emphasis “Socionics” in collaboration with Thomas Malsch
  • Teaching activities
2000-2005 Assistant lecturer at the Institute of Sociology of the Hamburg University of Technology
10/2005- 12/2005 Visiting researcher at the Center for Computing Technologies (TZI) of the University of Bremen (director: Prof. Dr. Otthein Herzog).
Sociological consulting for the DFG’s Sonderforschungsbereich 637 (collaborative research centre): Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes, particularly sociological consulting for the shaping of technical autonomous cooperation processes in logistics.
1/2006-9/2007 Research fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
Project: Forms of Symbolic Exchange as Social Mechanisms in Social Structural Dynamics, with institutional links to the Institute of Technology and Society of the Hamburg University of Technology.
10/2007-3/2009 Teacher of sociological theories at the Institute of Sociology of the WWU Münster.
05.02.2009 Postdoctoral lecture qualification at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg, licensed to teach “Sociology”.
21.04.2009 Appointment as private lecturer by the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg, licensed to teach “Sociology”.
4/2009-3/2010 Interim professor of Sociology and Cultural Sociology at the University of Konstanz (stand-in for Andreas Reckwitz).
since 01.04.2009 Interim professor of Sociological Theory at the Institute of Sociology of the WWU Münster.

Research Interests:

  • Sociological theory
  • Cultural and economic sociology
  • Sociology of technology

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Germany
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