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"Bioeconomy is an integral part of a comprehensive socio-ecological 
transformation and a critique of current forms of life and economic activity."

Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemke

Professor of Sociology with a focus on Biotechnologies, Nature and Society

The most important stages of the career

2014-2020 
Honorary professorship at the University of New South Wales/Sydney, Australia

since 2008 
Professor of Sociology with a focus on "Biotechnology, Nature and Society" in the Department of Social Sciences at the J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2008-2012 as Heisenberg Professorship)

2006 
Habilitation at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Wuppertal

1996 
Doctorate at the Department of Social Sciences of the J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Activities and Memberships

2018
Visiting Professor an der University of Sydney

2018
Fellow im Biohumanties Interchange Program (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2008
Visiting Professor an der Copenhagen Business School

Awards

2018
Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for the research project CRYOSOCIETIES

2015
Brocher Foundation Research Fellowship (Geneva, Switzerland) 

2014
Opus Magnum funding from the Volkswagen Foundation  

2007–2008
Heisenberg-Stipendium from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 

Biography

Thomas Lemke is a sociologist and known for this contributions to science and 
technology studies and his work on the concept of biopolitics. 

Focus

  • Participation
  • Distributive justice
  • Waste issues

Future Challenges

  • Climate crisis
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Social inequality
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