PD Dr. Peter Wehling - Biography

Education


2011 Habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt and since then private lecturer for sociology at the Department of Social Sciences

2006 – 2011 Private lecturer for Sociology at the University of Munich

2006 Habilitation at the University of Munich, venia legendi: sociology

  Habilitation thesis: "Im Schatten des Wissens? Perspektiven der Soziologie des Nichtwissens"

1991 Doctorate (Dr. phil) at Goethe University Frankfurt

  Dissertation thesis: "Die Moderne als Sozialmythos. Zur Kritik sozialwissenschaftlicher Modernisierungstheorien"

1983 Start of doctoral studies (Political Science) at Goethe University Frankfurt

1981 Magister Artium (major: Philosophy) at Goethe University Frankfurt

1973 Start of studies in Philosophy, Political Science and History at the universities of Munich, Marburg and Frankfurt

Academic Employment


Seit 11/2015 Research associate in the project "Carriers. Genetic Knowledge and the Emergence of a New Biosocial Identity" (project supervision), Sociology with focus on "Biotechnology, Nature and Society", Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt

07/13 - 04/2015 Research associate in the third-party funded project "„Präkonzeptionelle Genträger-Tests auf seltene Erkrankungen: Soziale Implikationen, ethische Problemstellungen und die Perspektive von Patientenorganisationen" (project supervision), Goethe University Frankfurt

07/2009 – 12/2013 Research associate in the third-party funded project "Partizipative Governance der Wissenschaft" at the University of Augsburg

12/2011 – 05/2012 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration"

07/2001 – 06/2009 Research associate at the University of Augsburg in the Collaborative Research Centre 536 "Reflexive Modernization

  Subprojects "Vergesellschaftung der Natur – Naturalisierung der Gesellschaft“ und „Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Wissenschaftsfolgenabschätzung"

09/2007 – 02/2008 Deputy Professor for Sociology of Science at Bielefeld University

10/2006 – 03/2007 Deputy Professor for Sociology at the University of Augsburg

2000 – 2001 Research associate at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich (Chair of Prof. Ulrich Beck)

1999 – 2000 Lectureship and service contract at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich

1995 – 1998 Research associate at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt

1990 – 1995 Research associate at Goethe University Frankfurt;
at the same time freelance research associate at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research

1986 – 1989 Free research and publication activity for the Social Ecology Research Group, Frankfurt am Main

1983 - 1989 Freelance journalist at the news agency ddp

Memberships


  • German Sociological Association (DGS), Sections Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Advisory board of the journal "Erwägen - Wissen - Ethik"
     

Referee Activities


Reviewer for numerous international and German journals, including:

  • Science, Technology and Human Values
  • Social Studies of Science
  • British Journal of Sociology
  • Zeitschrift für Soziologie
  • Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
  • Soziale Welt
  • Leviathan

as well as for various institutions working in the fields of research promotion and the promotion of young researchers.

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CONTACT

PD Dr. Peter Wehling

Goethe-University
Faculty of Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Group Biotechnologies,
Nature and Society

Visiting address
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
Campus-Westend – PEG-Building
Room 3.G 022
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Mail address
Campus Westend
PEG - internal post 31
60629 Frankfurt am Main

Tel. +49 69 798 36667
wehling@em.uni-frankfurt.de

CONTACT

Office Management

Angelika Boese
Room 3.G 030
Tel.: +49 69 798 36518
boese@soz.uni-frankfurt.de