Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer
Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Römerstraße 164
Raum 4.011b
Twitter: @mayer_iras
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Tel.: +49 (0)228/73 5640
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Regular office hours (4.011b): Tuesday 9:00-13:00 and Wednesday 13:00-17:00.
Biography
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.
Research Projects and Events | Teaching | Team
Research Projects and Events
Research Projects:
- Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects
- Asia-European Consortium on AI Research (AECAIR)
- Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics
- Assessment of Evolving International Infrastructures and Pandemic Management
- Surveying the Strategic Digital Policy (supported by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)
- No-Covid-Strategy
Events:
- West in the East: What a European initiative in the "Indo-Pacific" could look like (11 January 2021)
- China as Digital Superpower: An American-German Workshop on Digital Infrastructure and Digital Security (December 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, recording)
- Seminarreihe: Innovation in Health Governance and AI (June/July 2020)
Teaching
Team
Louisa Schmökel
Last updated: 15. December 2020