Research

Books, Edited Volumes, Working Papers

Selected Journal Articles, Book Chapters

Lead of Conferences, Chairs, Sessions

  • Lead organizer of the international conference “Resilient Societies in Times of Uncertainty: From Conceptual Foundation to Societal Implementation”

    Kyoto University, March 17–19, 2027 (together with Prof. Dr. Satoshi Kodama, Kyoto).

    resilient-healthcare.de

  • Chair of the invited symposium “What is fair? Gender diversity in sport between equal opportunity and self-determination”

    27th Sport Science University Day of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs), under the overarching theme “Sport Science: Diversity and Sustainability!?” — University of Münster, September 16–19, 2025.

    uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/dvs-hochschultag

  • Lead organizer of the international conference “Crises and Resilience: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Germany and Japan”

    University of Münster, August 25–26, 2025 — DFG-funded project RE-CARE (together with Dr. Markus Bohlmann, Dr. Gabriel Bartl, Dr. Joschka Haltaufderheide).

    resilient-healthcare.de

  • Lead organizer of the international conference “Resilient Healthcare: Perspectives on the Intersections of Crises, Health, and Technology from Germany and Japan”

    University of Tokyo, March 24–25, 2025 — DFG project RE-CARE (together with Prof. Dr. Shigeto Yonemura, Prof. Dr. Susanne Brucksch).

    resilient-healthcare.de

  • Chair of the session “Presentation of a new initiative: Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises: Connecting Germany and Japan (RE-CARE)”

    The 9th Japanese-German University Presidents’ Conference: “What Opportunities and Challenges does Artificial Intelligence offer to the Higher Education Sector?” — September 21–22, 2023, Göttingen.

  • Chair of the invited symposium “Intersex and Transgender in Elite and Amateur Sports”

    Sports, Medicine and Health Summit, June 22–24, 2023, Hamburg — together with Anette Richter-Unruh and Tim Meyer.

  • Lead organizer of the international conference “Digital Technologies of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan”

    March 14–18, 2022, Bochum — together with Dr. Joschka Haltaufderheide, Davide Viero and Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann.

    Conference programme (PDF)

  • Lead organizer of the online conference “‘You had a Risk Contact’ — Ethical and Social Dimensions of Digital Contact Tracing”

    September 17, 2021, Bochum — together with Dr. Joschka Haltaufderheide, Elisabeth Brachem, Isabella D’Angelo and Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann.

  • Chair of the invited symposium “Intersex in Elite Sport”

    Sports, Medicine and Health Summit, April 23, 2021, Hamburg — together with Prof. Dr. Annette Richter-Unruh.

Selected Talks

2026

  • Den Sport neu sortieren? — Eine soziologische Standortbestimmung zur Situation von tin* Personen

    Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB), TIN* working group, Fachimpuls — Frankfurt am Main, July 24, 2026.

  • Jenseits von männlich und weiblich? Geschlechterklassifikation, Fairness und Ausschlüsse im Sport

    LAG Queer Hamburg, March 21, 2026.

  • Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises (RE-CARE)

    Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD), Münster, March 16, 2026.

    uni-muenster.de/IMMIDD

  • Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises (RE-CARE)

    Poster presentation, “Connecting Disciplines Through Shared Methods (CDSC)”, February 9, 2026, Münster (together with Malina Spieker).

    uni-muenster.de/CDSC

2025

  • Regulierung von Sexdiversity in einer geschlechterbinären Sportwelt

    Invited presentation, “Zwischenräume: Geschlechterdiversität in der Wissenschaft, Medizin und Gesellschaft”, public lecture series of the SFB “Sexdiversity” (SFB 1665), Lübeck, December 3, 2025.

    sfb1665.uni-luebeck.de

  • “Was ist fair?” Geschlechterdiversität im Sport und die Herausforderungen der Chancengleichheit

    Invited presentation, Hamburger Sportbund, October 10, 2025, Hamburg.

    hamburger-sportbund.de

  • Die numerische Vermessung von Geschlechtervariationen im modernen Leistungssport

    27th Sport Science University Day of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs), “Sport Science: Diversity and Sustainability!?”, September 16–19, 2025, Münster.

    uni-muenster.de/Sportwissenschaft/dvs-hochschultag

  • The Treatment of Gender Diverse People in Sport as a Crisis of Classification

    International conference “Crises and Resilience: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Germany and Japan”, University of Münster, August 25–26, 2025 — DFG project RE-CARE.

    resilient-healthcare.de

  • Classifying People as Risks in Pandemics — Perspectives from the Social Sciences (opening talk)

    International conference “Resilient Healthcare: Perspectives on the Intersections of Crises, Health, and Technology from Germany and Japan”, University of Tokyo, March 24–25, 2025 — DFG project RE-CARE.

    resilient-healthcare.de

  • Polarisierte Pluralisierung — Die Situation von inter- und transgeschlechtlichen Menschen im Sport

    University of Würzburg (invited talk), January 16, 2025.

    Event page

2024

  • Soziologische Perspektiven auf die Kategorisierung von Geschlecht im Sport und den Umgang mit “Category Errors”

    University of Oldenburg (invited talk), December 18, 2024.

  • Kategoriale Ambiguitäten — oder die Vermessung der Geschlechter im Sport und der Umgang mit kategorialen Transgressionen

    “Klassen, Klassifikationen, Klassifizierungen”, section conference of the German Sociological Association, September 23–25, 2024, University of Osnabrück.

    soziologie.de

  • Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Vielfalt im Sport

    “Gegenwind”, federal programme “Demokratie Leben!”, invited talk organised by LSVD Saar, FrauenGenderBibliothek Saar, Queer-Referat des AStA der Universität des Saarlandes and Landessportverband Saarland — University of Saarland, June 27, 2024.

    frauengenderbibliothek-saar.de

  • Der Balanceakt zwischen Diversität und Binarität: Der Umgang mit geschlechtlichen Variationen und Transgressionen im Sport

    Diversity Week at the University of Cologne, June 3–7, 2024.

    vielfalt.uni-koeln.de

  • Artificial Intelligence in Sports Studies: Insights from a Quantitative Survey among Sports Students in Germany (poster presentation)

    “AI Research Expo by CENOS and INTERKI”, Münster, April 23, 2024.

    Poster (PDF)

2023

  • Geschlechtstests als zeitgenössische Diskursformationen

    “Sports, Medicine and Health Summit”, Hamburg, June 22, 2023.

  • Die Kategorisierung nichtbinärer Körper in Sport und Medizin im Lichte der Vielfaltsgesellschaft

    Lecture series “Sportwissenschaftlicher Austausch in Hamburg”, Hamburg, June 21, 2023.

  • Herausforderungen der Vielfaltsgesellschaft — Umgang mit Geschlechterdiversität in Sport und Medizin

    Lecture series “Was Gesellschaft über Diskriminierung wissen kann …”, Göttingen, June 6, 2023.

    Recording on YouTube

  • Digital Technologies in Times of Crises. A cultural dialogue between Germany and Japan

    Teikyō University, Japan, March 8, 2023.

  • Überlegungen zur impliziten Exklusivität von Vergleichen am Beispiel der Geschlechtstests in der professionellen Leichtathletik

    “Sport, Spiel und fairer Wettbewerb — Modelle des Klassifizierens, Vergleichens, Bewertens und Entscheidens”, DFG project workshop “Accounting und transformatorische Effekte im Profifußball”, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, February 10–11, 2023.

  • Ambivalente Geschlechter? Der gesellschaftliche Umgang mit Nichtbinarität am Beispiel der Behandlung von intersexuellen Körpern in Sport und Medizin

    Lecture series “Geschichte und Gegenwart der Geschlechterverhältnisse”, Georg-August-University Göttingen, January 13, 2023.