Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer
Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology
Contact
E-Mail: maximilian.mayer@uni-bonn.de
Phone: +49 (0)228/73-5640
Address: Römerstraße 164, D-53117 Bonn, Room 4.011b
Website: Institut für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie
Twitter: @mayer_iras
Office Hours and Profile
Office hours
During the lecture-free period, the office hours take place online (via Zoom or Skype) every Thursday between 10:00 and 11:30 a.m. or by prior appointment. Registration via email (nock@uni-bonn.de) required. Contact: Room 4.011b, Phone: +49 (0)228 73 5640.
Profile
Dr. Maximilian Mayer is Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology at University of Bonn. He was assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2019-2020). He is also research fellow at Renmin University Beijing (2018-2020), worked as Research Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai (2015-2018) and was senior researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University Munich (2018-2019). Maximilian worked at the Bonn University’s Center for Global Studies (CGS) as managing assistant and senior fellow (2009-2015). Maximilian holds a master degree from Ruhr University Bochum and obtained his PhD at Bonn University. His research interests include the global politics of science, innovation, and technology; China’s foreign and energy policy; global energy and climate politics; theories of International Relations. Maximilian presents regularly at international conferences, publishes his research in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored seven books including China’s Energy Thirst: Myth or Reality? (2007 together with Xuewu Gu), Changing orders: transdiciplinary analysis of global and local realities (2008, co-editer), two-volumes on The Global Politics of Science and Technology (2014, lead editor). He is coeditor of Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics (Palgrave, 2016) and edited Rethinking the Silk-Road: Chinas Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations (Palgrave, 2018). Maximilian was visiting scholar at Harvard Kennedy School, Program on Science, Technology and Society, and section co-chair of STAIR (Science, Technology, Arts and international relations) of the International Studies Association (2015-2017) and STAIR program chair (2014-2015). Furthermore, he is part of the research group The Second Cold War Observatory.
Full CV here. More information on the website of the Institute for Political Science and Sociology.
Research Interests
- Role of science and technology in International Relations
- Chinas foreign and energy politics
- Global enviroment and climate politics
Research Projects and Events
Ongoing Research Projects
- Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects
- Autonomy and autonomous systems
- Asia-European Consortium on AI Research (AECAIR)
- Katekisama
- Netzwerk KI und digitale Autonomie in Wissenschaft und Bildung (KIAuBi)
- Tech Middle Power Cooperation
Former Research Projects
- Surveying Strategic Digital Politics (funded by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)
- No-Covid-Strategie
- Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics
- Assessment of Evolving International Infrastructures and Pandemic Management
- Digital Fragmentations and Digital Sovereignty (funded by TRA4 of the University of Bonn)
Selected Events
- Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections (usually once a month)
- Roundtable “What is Global China?”, Jagiellonian University Kraków (10/2023)
- Lecture Series "Digitalization of Memory Practices and Heritage in Global Perspectives" (Summer semester 2023)
- Autonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society (11/2022)
- Fifth AECAIR International Conference: Artificial Intelligence Solutions in a Turbulent World (11/2022)
- „China in der deglobalen Konstellation“, Dialog with Heinz Bude in the Series „Krieg und Frieden--Streit ums Politische“ (11/2022)
- Fourth AECAIR International Conference: Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence (12/2021)
- International Security Forum Bonn 2021: Special Focus Day "The Rise of Eastern Modernity? European Responses to China’s Global Role” (9/2021)
- Der Westen liegt auch im Osten. Wie eine europäische Initiative im „Indo-Pazifik“ aussehen könnte (1/2021)
- International Security Forum Bonn 2020: Special Focus Day on "What to Learn from the Pandemic: Security in the Light of COVID-19" (12/2020)
- China as Digital Superpower: An American-German Workshop on Digital Infrastructure and Digital Security (12/2020)
- Framing the Future of AI: Policy Dilemmas and Solutions (11/2020)
- EU-Korea convergence and partnerships 10 years after the EU-Korea FTA (11/2020)
- Seminarreihe: Innovation in Health Governance and AI (6/7 2020)
Winter Semester 2024
Team
A scientific analysis by Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak and Xin Zhang on the complex and transformative nature of Global China.
Prof. Dr Maximilian Mayer & Dr. Susanne Peters discuss the security implications arising from the interplay between energy security, new energy technologies and the dynamics of climate change in an article for the newly published "Handbook on Climate Change and International Security",
Prof. Dr Maximilian Mayer & Yen-Chi Lu, PhD student at CASSIS, discuss in their article for
SIRIUS - Journal for Strategic Analyses, they discuss Europe's position within the structures of global digital dependency. To do so, they draw on the "Digital Dependence Index", a measurement of the dependencies of various countries in the field of digital technologies.
Under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer Guest, the Special Issue "Politics of Memory, Heritage, and Diversity in Modern China" was recently published in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. In various articles and in the introduction by Maximilian Mayer & Karolina Pawlik, the Special Issue addresses questions of the interaction between collective memory and Chinese identity, cultural modernisation and political mobilisation.