Maximilian Pieper, M.Sc.

Research Assistant, Chair of Environmental Sociology with a Focus on Socio-Ecological Transformation, Resilience Design and Climate
Centre for Climate Resilience
Phone: +49 (0) 821 598 4827
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Room: 1210 (I)
Open hours: upon request via mail
Address: Universitätsstraße 12, 86159 Augsburg

Curriculum vitae

  • since 4/2025           Researcher at the Chair of Environmental Sociology at the University of Augsburg
  • 04/2024-09/2024     Lecturer at the Chair of Environmental Sociology at the University of Augsburg
  • Since 10/2021        Affiliated doctoral student at the International Doctoral College "Rethinking Environment - The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society"
  • 10/2021-10/2022     Research assistant at the Chair of Innovation and Sustainable Management at the University of Augsburg
  • 10/2018-04/2021     Study of 'Politics & Technology' (M.Sc.) at the Munich School of Public Policy (TUM)
  • 04/2018-04/2021     Research assistant at the Institute for Materials Resource Management, research group 'Markets for Mankind'
  • 10/2014 -02/2018    Study of Industrial Engineering and Management (B.Sc.) at the University of Augsburg
 
 

Main Research Interests

  • Sociology of technology
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Political Economy
  • Ecological Economics
  • Global socio-ecological inequalities
  • Systems Theory
 
 

Teaching

Summer Term 2025

 

S: Soziologie des Konsums und Verzichts in Zeiten der Klimakrise

GK: Gegenwartsdiagnosen B: Einführung in die Techniksoziologie

 

Summer Term 2024

S: Die Debatte zum Anthropozän: Ursachen und Schuldzuschreibungen für die Umweltkrisen des 21. Jahrhunderts

 

Summer Term 2022

S: The Future of Work: Innovation and Sustainability

 

Winter Term 2021/22

S: Aspects of Entrepreneurship in International Business

S: Systems in Transition: The Role of Companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020

2024

Pieper, Maximilian (2024): Technology as a strategy of the human? A comparison between the extension concept and the fetish concept of technology. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00697-0
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Pieper, Maximilian (2024): When is a technology productive? When does it function? – A response to Hornborg's commentary. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00716-0
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2023

Hentschl, Moritz; Michalke, Amelie; Pieper, Maximilian; Gaugler, Tobias; Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne (im Druck): Dietary change and land use change: assessing preventable climate and biodiversity damage due to meat consumption in Germany. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-023-01326-z
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2021

Pieper, Maximilian; Michalke, Amelie; Gaugler, Tobias (2021): Author Correction: Calculation of external climate costs for food highlights inadequate pricing of animal products. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22237-6
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2020

Pieper, Maximilian; Michalke, Amelie; Gaugler, Tobias (2020): Calculation of external climate costs for food highlights inadequate pricing of animal products. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19474-6
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Correction published at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22237-6

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