
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 Covid-19 pandemic office hours will be held online (via Zoom or Skype) every Thursday from 10:00-11:30 am or by appointment. Registration via email (nock@uni-bonn.de) required. Contact: Room 4.011b, Phone: +49 (0)228 73 5640.
Regular office hours (4.011b): Tuesday 9:00-13:00 and Wednesday 13:00-17:00.
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).
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
- Asia-European Consortium on AI Research (AECAIR)
- Surveying Strategic Digital Politics (funded by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)
- No-Covid-Strategie
- Katekisama
Former Research Projects
- 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)
Events
- Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections
- Fourth AECAIR International Conference on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence (17. Dezember 2021)
- International Security Forum Bonn 2021: Special Focus Day "The Rise of Eastern Modernity? European Responses to China’s Global Role” (September, 30 2021)
- Der Westen liegt auch im Osten. Wie eine europäische Initiative im „Indo-Pazifik“ aussehen könnte (11. Januar 2021)
- International Security Forum Bonn 2020: Special Focus Day on "What to Learn from the Pandemic: Security in the Light of COVID-19" (Dezember 3, 2020)
- China as Digital Superpower: An American-German Workshop on Digital Infrastructure and Digital Security (Dezember 2020)
- Framing the Future of AI: Policy Dilemmas and Solutions (November 2020)
- EU-Korea convergence and partnerships 10 years after the EU-Korea FTA (November 2020, Aufzeichnung)
- Seminarreihe: Innovation in Health Governance and AI (Juni/Juli 2020)
- Modernity, Technology and Political Transformation in East Asia II
- Datenmacht, digitale Dependenz und Cyber-Infrastrukturen in den neuen Internationalen Politischen
- Geopolitical, Technological and Cultural Impacts of Global China
- Masterkolloquium WiSe 2021/22
- Moderne, Technologie und politische Transformation in Asien
- Masterkolloquium SoSe 2021