Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth

Jan-Hendrik Passoth is a sociologist and science and technology researcher with an empirical research focus on digital infrastructures for democracy and politics, software development as a social practice and the critical design of digital transformation projects. His projects with partners from the fields of computer science, mathematics and software development, but also with actors from politics, civil society and the arts have been supported by various funding organisations, including the DFG, the BMBF, Erasmus+ and the EU H2020 programme. He works with and on sociological practice theories and actor-network theory (ANT) as well as on the modernity history of societal and social science conceptions of technology. His work has been reflected in several monographs and editorships and has appeared in renowned journals such as International Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, Environment and Planning D, Science as Culture or the Journal of Systems and Software.

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Jan-Hendrik Passoth (born 1978 in Schwelm) has been Professor of Sociology of Technology at the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) since 2020. After studying sociology, computer science and political science at the University of Hamburg (1998-2003), he completed his doctorate there in 2007, followed by his habilitation at the European University Viadrina in 2017, where he was awarded the venia legendi in sociology. From 2015-2020, he headed the Digital/Media/Lab at the Munich Centre for Technology in Society at the Technical University of Munich. He was a visiting scholar at Indiana University (2005), Pennsylvania State University (2013-2014) and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld (2010), the Media Studies Seminar at the University of Siegen (2014) and the University of Stellenbosch (2020). He has been director of the ENS since March 2023.