
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). 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
- Asia-European Consortium on AI Research (AECAIR)
- Surveying Strategic Digital Politics (funded by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)
- Katekisama
Former Research Projects
- 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)
Events
- Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections (usually once a month)
- 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)
- 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)
- Konzepte und Diskurse der Autonomie in den Internationalen Beziehungen (WiSe 2022/23)
- Geopolitics, Technology, and Economy: Rising China and its Global and Regional Influence (WiSe 2022/23)
- Masterkolloquium (WiSe 2022/23)
Team
Together with Amir Elalouf, Maximilian Mayer has contributed a chapter called "Assessing the Financial and Geoeconomic Implications of China’s Digital Currency" in a publication edited by Tim Rühlig. It highlights the possible effects of the e-CNY on European security, values and competitiveness, and recommends steps to improve Europe’s economic and technological stance.
Nicolas Huppenbauer, Dr. Ying Huang and Prof. Maximilian Mayer explore the tension between digital fragmentations and connectivity in Chinese cyberspace and introduce a new term "selective connectivity".
Prof. Maximilian Mayer and Ga Young Lee are examining the genesis of South Korea's proactive pandemic management and the resulting learning processes.
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer writes on China's technological influence in Africa as part of a Center for Global Studies publication.