Nina Baur

Nina Baur was born in 1973 in Döffingen (Germany) and grew up in Germany, the USA and the UK. She studied sociology at the universities of Bamberg, Hamburg and Lancaster. After graduation, she first worked at the universities of Bamberg and Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and in 2006, she was appointed as Professor for Methods of Social Research at the Department of Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. Her book "Verlaufsmusteranalyse" won the German Sociology Association's Price for the Best Doctoral Thesis between 2004 and 2006 and the “E.ON Cultural Prize of Bavaria” for the best doctoral thesis of Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg in 2004/2005. Today, she works on methods of social research; sociology of processes, innovations and risks; sociology of space; and market sociology. For her research, she continues travelling. Amongst the various academic positions she holds, she is President of the Research Committee “Logic & Methodology in Sociology” and Board Member of of the Research Committee “Historical and Comparative Sociology” of the International Sociology Association; Board Member of the Section “Economic Sociology” of the German Sociology Foundation; and Managing Editor of the Journal HSR (“Historische Sozialforschung / Historical Social Research”).