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Tilo Grenz, born in 1981, is a sociologist, lecturer, and research coordinator at Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau. Previously, he served as a tenure track assistant professor at Bertha von Suttner Privatuniversität and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at Universität Wien. He earned his PhD from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in 2014. His research focus lies in advancing the debate on the digital risk society by framing platform contestation and cybersecurity as genuine sociological fields for the reconstruction of infrastructural dynamics. Methodologically, he specializes in processual analysis and the development of »Interpretative Tracing«..
Daniel Guagnin heads the »Networks and Society« division at the nexus Institute in Berlin, where he coordinates interdisciplinary research projects and advises companies on data protection, IT security, technology assessment, digitalization, and AI governance. He has been researching the social impacts of technology since 2010 and teaches participatory technology development. He combines his practical experience in IT administration, programming, and IT support with sociological research, focusing on the transfer of science into practice..
Sezgin Sönmez, born in 1983, is a sociologist and postdocotoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, where he also received his PhD in 2023. He is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 »Re-Figuration of Spaces«, which studies changes in the socio-spatial order since the late 1960s. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge, discourse analysis, digitalisation, and cybersecurity..
Basil Wiesse, born in 1985, works as a sociologist at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he also received his PhD in 2020 with a monograph on situation and affect theory. His research focuses on epistemology, theories of practice, qualitative methods and methodologies, and digitalisation.
