Dr. Timur Ergen

 

Research Projects

• Sociology of Competition
• The Politics of Deindustrialization

Selected Publications

Ergen, Timur. 2018. "The Dilemma between Aligned Expectations and Diversity in Innovation: Evidence from Early Energy Technology Policies." In Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy, edited by Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk, 298-318. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  
Ergen, Timur, and Sebastian Kohl. 2017. "Varieties of Economization in Competition Policy: A Comparative Analysis of German and American Antitrust Doctrines." MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/18. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.  
Ergen, Timur. 2017. "Coalitional Cohesion in Technology Policy: The Case of the Early Solar Cell Industry in the United States." MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/7. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.  
Ergen, Timur. 2015. Große Hoffnungen und brüchige Koalitionen: Industrie, Politik und die schwierige Durchsetzung der Photovoltaik. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

 

Vita

Spring 2019	Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York
2015-present	Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Oct. 2014	Doctorate, Social Sciences, University of Cologne; thesis on Germany’s solar industry and the search for a new energy order
May-Dec. 2014	Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Fall 2012	Visiting Student, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2010-2014	Doctoral Researcher, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
2008–2010	MA, Sociology and Political Science, RWTH Aachen University
2005–2008	BA, Sociology, Economics, and Economic History, RWTH Aachen University