Germany. Sociologist and director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Freiburg/Germany. He studied Sociology, Modern History, and Philosophy; he obtained his doctorate and Habilitation in Sociology at the University of Freiburg, where he has been a professor of Cultural Sociology since 2011. His research interests include the Sociology of Social and Personal Technologies; Governmentality Studies, Sociology of Culture, among others.

Some of your recent publications are: Governmentality of the Present: Studies on the Economization of the Social (Ed. with Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke), Frankfurt, M.: Suhrkamp, 2000; The entrepreneurial self: Sociology of a form of subjectivation, Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2007; Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges (Ed. with Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke), New York/London: Routledge 2011 (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol. 71); Political Thought. Contemporary Positions (Ed. together with Robert Feustel), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2010.