Dr. Carola Westermeier

Research Group Leader
Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty
+49 221 2767-154

Main Focus

  • Economic sociology
  • International political economy
  • (Digital) infrastructures in international relations
  • Financial technologies

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025
Head of the Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

2024–2025
Lecturer and senior researcher, Institute for Sociology, University of Gießen

2024
Research fellow/ZEVEDI Young Investigator, Institute of Sociology, TU Darmstadt

20232025
Principal investigator, research project “Money as Data,” Centre Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI), TU Darmstadt

20222022
Co-Principal Investigator, DFG research project “Financial Infrastructures and Geoeconomic Security,” Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) Dynamics of Security, University of Marburg

20212020
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

2018
Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Sociology, University of Gießen

2018
Dr. phil., Sociology, University of Marburg


Awards and honors (selected)

2023
Fellowship, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin

20152018
Member, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, University of Gießen

20092017
PhD Scholarship and Student Scholarship, Foundation of German Business

2011
Award for Bachelor’s thesis, Hessian Ministry of the Interior

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