Our team

Our project combines theoretical and methodological expertise of seven disciplines in the social sciences, mathematical and natural sciences, and the humanities to better understand the interaction dynamics of civil society address at different analytical levels and through different modalities.

Our team includes:

  • psychologists emphasizing individual-level conditions and correlates of cohesion, both in micro-social encounters and at population scales;

  • sociologists capitalizing on small- and large-scale patterns of social structure and civil society organizations;

  • political scientists looking at pertinent political processes and cleavages;

  • linguists specializing in the symbolic and discursive articulation and negotiation of cohesion and civil society;

  • media and communication scholars analyzing the media infrastructures and technologies that promote or disrupt cohesion;

  • computer scientists studying multimodal interactions between humans and non-humans in face-to-face and mediated encounters;

  • philosophers developing integrative conceptual and epistemological frameworks for an inter- and transdisciplinary analysis.

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Larissa Knoechelmann DE

Larissa Knoechelmann Principal Investigator RESEARCH STREAMS “INDIVIDUALS” Mail: fu-berlin.de Website: Short Vita I am professor of Macrosociology at the Free University Berlin. I did my PhD thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and had research positions at the University of Bremen and of Göttingen. My main research interests lie in the fields of political sociology, [...]

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Prof. Dr. Jan Slaby DE

Prof. Dr. Jan Slaby Principal Investigator Mail: fu-berlin.de Website: Short Vita I am professor of Macrosociology at the Free University Berlin. I did my PhD thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and had research positions at the University of Bremen and of Göttingen. My main research interests lie in the fields of political sociology, the sociology [...]

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Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwander DE

Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwander Principal Investigator Mail: fu-berlin.de Website: Short Vita I am professor of Macrosociology at the Free University Berlin. I did my PhD thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and had research positions at the University of Bremen and of Göttingen. My main research interests lie in the fields of political sociology, the sociology [...]

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Diego Dametto DE

Diego Dametto Stream Interaction Mail: Website: https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/arbeitsbereiche/emotionen/team/wimi/diego-dametto.html Short Vita Ich habe Philosophie und Geschichte der Ideen (M.A.) an der Università degli Studi di Torino und Zukunftsforschung (M.A.) an der Freien Universität Berlin studiert. Beruflich war ich als Datenanalyst und später als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Fachhochschule Potsdam und am IZT - Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung tätig. Zurzeit [...]

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Céline Teney DE

Céline Teney Research Unit Macrosociology Department of Political and Social Sciences Mail: fu-berlin.de Website: Short Vita I am professor of Macrosociology at the Free University Berlin. I did my PhD thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and had research positions at the University of Bremen and of Göttingen. My main research interests lie in the [...]