Dr. Timur Ergen

2022-2023
John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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