Eva Barlösius is Professor for Sociology with a focus on macrosociology and social structural analysis at the Leibniz University of Hannover . In 2010 she established the interdisciplinary master program on 'Science and Society', which is jointly organized with the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW). From 2015 to 2018 she built up the Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS), an inter-faculty and interdisciplinary research center at the Leibniz University of Hannover . The LCSS runs together with the DZHW the Graduate School 'Science and Society'. Her actual research interests are research infrastructures, data sharing, the introduction of tenure-track professorships in Germany, and random selection in science.

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Sandra Beaufaÿs works as a research associate and scientific editor at the coordination and research unit of the Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She received her doctorate in sociology at the TU Darmstadt in 2003, in a DFG project at the interface between sociology of gender and science studies. She was research manager and scientific editor to the managing director of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main from 2002-2006. This was followed by work as a university lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Department of Gender Sociology and Gender Studies at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, as a researcher in the project 'Women in Advanced Research' at the University of Hamburg, and as a research associate at the University of Bielefeld as well as for the Center of Excellence Women and Science at the Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne.

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Nora Berning is Deputy Director / Managing Director at Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning (Bayerisches Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung, IHF). She studied English/American and French literature and culture as well as media studies in Freiburg, Aarhus, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Sydney. She pursued a PhD in narratology at Western's Faculty of Information and Media Studies and at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard.
Since 2012, she held several leadership positions in research management and has led large international consortia such as the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob - Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production". She also holds an Executive MBA from Mannheim Business School.

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Dr. Roland Bloch is research associate at the Center for School and Educational Research at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and board member of the Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf). He studied Political Science, Philosophy, and American studies at the University of Leipzig and at Vanderbilt University (US). In 2008, he received his PhD in Political Science at University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the effects of the Bologna reforms on students’ practice. From 2014 to 2017 Roland Bloch was research associate at the Institute of Sociology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and from 2007 to 2014 at the Institute for Higher Education Research Halle-Wittenberg. His main research interests are the structure and organization of academic practice, vertical differentiations in higher education, and the genesis and implementation of higher education reforms.

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Edith Braun is Professor of Higher Education/Teacher Education at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where she is Vice President of the Centre for Competence Development. She is also Vice President of the German-speaking Society for Higher Education Research and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Active Learning in Higher Education.
At her university, she teaches and is responsible for the focus on higher education in the graduate programme in the study programme of education. Her work relates to all levels: At the micro level, she develops innovative learning tools that use AI-based tools to improve transversal skills. At the meso level, she collaborates with the Quality Assurance Department. At the macro level, she is the Chair of the team developing indicators for digitalisation, sustainability and equity as part of an EU-HORIZON project.

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Christiane Gross is professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Würzburg. After studying sociology in Augsburg and Munich (LMU), she worked at the universities in Munich (LMU), Kiel, Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Hannover , as well as being interim professor at the University of Konstanz. She has also worked on several projects funded by the DFG and BMBF, including the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Her dissertation thesis at the CAU Kiel was awarded the Faculty Prize in 2009. She r eceived a habilitation (post.doc qualification) scholarship financed by the Federal Government for her habilitation at CAU Kiel. Her research and teaching interests include social stratification in (higher) education, work and health.

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Julian Hamann is junior professor of Higher Education Research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Bamberg in 2014 and his habilitation at Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2021. He was Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Warwick, Northeastern University, Boston, and Harvard University. Hamann's research interests combine sociology of science and sociological higher education research and focus on academic disciplines, careers, and evaluation.

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Thomas Heinze is professor of Organizational Sociology and deputy director of the IZWT. Professor Heinze has conducted several research projects on the scientific performance of national research systems, focusing on institutional conditions for scientific creativity and organizational change in large research infrastructures. Before moving to Wuppertal, he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (2001-07), and the universities of Twente (2007-08) and Bamberg (2008-11). He has published Institutionelle Erneuerungsfähigkeit der Forschung (Springer, 2012, with Georg Krücken) and Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal. Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Palgrave, 2016, with Richard Münch). He has been guest professor at the universities of Göteborg (2013), Arizona State (2017) and Caltech (2018).

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Michael Hoelscher, sociologist, holds a PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and a habilitation (post-doc qualification) from University of Heidelberg. Before becoming a professor in Higher Education Management at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, he taught as a professor for Empirical Social Research at TU Chemnitz and worked as postdoc at the universities of Heidelberg and Oxford. He is member of the editorial boards of 'Hochschulmanagement', 'Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung' and 'Global Perspectives', chair of the German Society for Research into Higher Education (GfHF), board member of the Centre for Science and Research Management (ZWM) and Senior Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV). His research interests are higher education, research and science; knowledge transfer; creative cities; innovation and creativity as well as culture, often with a special focus on an international comparative perspective.

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The Interdisciplinary Network for Studies Investigating Science and Technology INSIST is an independent initiative bringing together early career researchers with a focus on science and technology across disciplines and institutional affiliations.
Fostering exchange and collaboration and offering opportunities to discuss, present and publish research in self-organized conferences and publications, we aim to both strengthen ties between aspiring scholars as well as their visibility in the academic landscape at large and in their fields.
Find out more about who we are, what we do, and how to participate at https://insist-network.com.

Professor Monika Jungbauer-Gans studied sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 1992 and a postdoc qualification (habilitation) in 2001. She held a temporary appointment as professor of sociological theory at the University of Wuppertal from 2002 to 2004. She held the chair of sociology at Kiel University from 2005 to 2010 and the chair of empirical economic sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2010 to 2015. She has been scientific director of the German Centre of Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) since September 2015.

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David Kaldewey is professor for science studies and science policy at the University of Bonn. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Bielefeld University. His research focuses on historical and contemporary science policy discourses, models and concepts of research, and research atmospheres in universities around the globe. In his book Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit (2013), he explored discourses on the goals and values of science in a longue-durée perspective. The recently published volume Basic and Applied Research (2018, with Désirée Schauz) reconstructs the language of science policy in the 20th century. Other publications deal with the changing relationship of science and politics, particularly with the contemporary pluralization of science policy discourses and how they transform the identity work of scholars, scientists and policy makers.

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Anna Kosmützky is a professor for the “Methodology of Higher Education and Science Research” at the Leibniz Center of Science and Society (LCSS) at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. She obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from Bielefeld University in 2010 and worked at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) from 2009-2017. Her research comprises higher education research, science research, and organizational studies. Her research focusses on the methodology of comparative research, in particular international comparative research (including international collaborative research), internationalization, globalization, and transnationalization processes in higher education (and beyond) as well as institutional and organizational change of higher education and research organizations.

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Georg Krücken is professor of Higher Education Research and director of INCHER-Kassel, the International Centre for Higher Education Research, both at the University of Kassel. After undergraduate and graduate studies in sociology, philosophy, and political sciences at Bielefeld University and the University of Bologna, Krücken received his Ph.D. in sociology from Bielefeld University in 1996. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (Department of Sociology and School of Education) and taught as a guest professor at the Institute for Science Studies, University of Vienna, and at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences Po, Paris. Before coming to Kassel he held the endowed chair for Higher Education and Science Management* at the University of Speyer. Krücken is president of the Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (Society for Higher Education Research), spokesperson of the research network New Institutionalism and member of Academia Europaea.

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Liudvika Lei¨ytė (PhD in Public Administration) is Professor of Higher Education, visiting senior scholar at CHEPS, University of Twente and vice director of the Center of Higher Education, TU Dortmund University in Germany. She has widely published on the topics of university governance reforms, university organizational transformation, quality in higher education, professional autonomy and academic productivity in five books and prestigious peer-reviewed journals and handbooks in higher education and science studies. In 2018 she received the Emerald Literati Award for the article on university transformation in the Learning Organization journal. Prof. Lei¨ytė is a member of editorial boards of Triple Helix, European Journal of Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Acta Pedagogica Vilnensis. She is co-convenor of the higher education network of the European Education Research Association (EERA), board member of the German higher education association (GfHf) and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Agency.

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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS) in the department for Monitoring Society and Social Change (DBG)
Andrea Löther is deputy head and senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS). She studied history, sociology and European ethnology in Marburg and Bielefeld, finishing her studies with a PhD in history. From 1997 to 2000, she was gender equality officer at the University of Bielefeld. She has been working as senior researcher at the Center of Excellence Women and Science CEWS since 2000.
Main activities: gender equality policies in higher education; monitoring and evaluation of gender equality policies; gender statistics and gender in university ranking; gender aspects in working conditions of academic staff.

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Sabine Maasen studied sociology, linguistics and psychology at the University of Bielefeld. After receiving her doctorate in sociology (1996) and her habilitation (2001), she was appointed to a professorship for science research/ sociology of science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Since December 2013, she holds the Friedrich Schiedel Endowed Chair in Sociology of Science at Technical University of Munich. She is head of Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), which conducts multidisciplinary research on 'science and technology in technologized societies'. Sabine Maasen is a member of many committees, such as the scientific commission of the German Council of Science and Humanities. Her research focus is on interdisciplinary and transversal TechnoSciences, notably in the domain of neurotechnology.

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Bernhard Nievergelt is Managing Director of the Competence Center for Higher Education and Science Studies CHESS (since 2014), Head of the CAS "Leadership and Governance at Universities" since 2016 and involved in the development of the internal leadership training at the University of Zurich. He studied sociology in Zurich, Berlin and Paris, specialising in science policy. Since 2000 various science policy activities and lecturer in research and science policy. 2004-2009 Head of the secretariat of the Swiss Science and Technology Council SWTR. 2011 Executive MPA at the University of Bern. 2011-2014 Collaboration in the Swiss National Science Foundation project "Managing Science at Universities : A Micro-level Analysis of the ‘New Governance of Science’ ". Main areas of work: Science policy, science and technology research, governance of universities, professionalisation of university management.

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Martin Reinhart is director of the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies and professor for science studies at the School for Libarary and Information Science. He studied sociology, economics, and computer science at the University of Basel, where he also was a doctoral student at the Science Studies Program. He is a professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2012 and his research interests include research evaluation, science and society, as well as transfer and translation of scientific knowledge.

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Uwe Wilkesmann is director of the Centre for Higher Education (zhb), TU Dortmund University. He holds a chair for Organization Studies, Management of Continuing Education, and Social Management. He was adjunct professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University between 2008 and 2014 and professor at the LMU University of Munich and at the University of Hamburg. Uwe received his PhD and habilitation (German professorship qualification) from the Ruhr University, Bochum. He has published many articles and books about higher education research and knowledge management, for example in organization studies, higher education, studies in higher education, tertiary education and management. His current research interests focus on higher education research and knowledge transfer.

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