Dr. Carola Westermeier

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

2023–2025
Principal investigator, research project “Money as Data,” Centre Responsible Digitality (ZEVEDI), TU Darmstadt

2022–2022
Co-Principal Investigator, DFG research project “Financial Infrastructures and Geoeconomic Security,” Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) Dynamics of Security, University of Marburg

2021–2020
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

2015–2018
Member, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, University of Gießen

2009–2017
PhD Scholarship and Student Scholarship, Foundation of German Business

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