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Dr. Veit Braun

Research Assistant at the Chair of Environmental Sociology with a focus on social-ecological transformation, resilience design and climate
Centre for Climate Resilience
Phone: +49 (0) 821 598 4885
Email:
Room: 1213 (I)
Open hours: by prior appointment
Address: Universitätsstraße 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

 

 

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, University of Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse)

11/2019–02/2022 Visiting scholar, Molecular Ecology Lab, Cardiff University (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, University 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, University 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, University of Vienna and LMU Munich

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