Short CV
Contact
Name
PD Dr. Dennis Krämer
Research Areas
- Sociology of Sport, the Body, and Health
- Empirical Ethics Research on Health Technologies
- Gender Diversity in Sport, Medicine, and Society
- Sociology of Classification and Knowledge Orders
- Technology, Crises, and Resilience
- German-Japanese Research Cooperation
- Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research (empirical-ethical approaches, discourse analysis, ethnography, interview research, participatory research designs, AI-assisted qualitative data analysis, Grounded Theory, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews)
Academic Education
2026
Habilitation, University of Hamburg, with venia legendi in Sociology of Sport & Health Sciences
2019
PhD (Dr. phil.), University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, Institute of Human Movement Science, Unit “Culture, Media and Society / Sociology of Sport” with the study “Intersex in Sports“
2010
M.A. in Sociology with minors in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Science in Augsburg and Münster
Awards
2023
Teaching Award, Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
2022
Teaching Award, Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
2021
Scholarship and Member, Global Young Faculty, Mercator Research
2020
PhD Thesis Award, German Sociological Association, Sociology of the Body and Sports
2020
German Olympic Sports Confederation Research Award (3rd Place)
Review Activies
Big Data & Society, Sport and Society, Digital Culture & Society, BMC Medical Ethics, EU, Digital Government: Research and Practice, German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, German Society of Sport Science, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Quality of Life Research Journal, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, The International Journal of the History of Sport
Academic Involvement (since 2020)
Since 06/2024
PI of project: “Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises: Connecting Germany and Japan” (RE-CARE) – German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 01/2024
Senior Researcher, University of Münster
02/2026
Visiting Researcher, Nord University (Bodø), Norway
03/2025-04/2025
Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, Japan
04/2022-09/2023
Professor, Sociology of Sport and Health (W2 interim), Georg-August-University of Göttingen
03/2023-04/2023
Visiting Researcher, Teikyo University Tokyo, Japan
11/2021-12/2022
PI of project: „Digital Technologies of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan“ (TECHCO) – German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
04/2020-03/2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ruhr-University Bochum
10/2020-12/2021
PI of project: „The Ethics of Livetracking-Applications in Connection with SARS-CoV-2“ (ELISA) – German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
Memberships & Activities
- DFG International Cooperation “Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises” (Founder)
- Interdisciplinary Ethics-Committee Medical Treatment of Children with Sex Differences (Advisory Board)
- Landessportbund of Lower Saxony (Project “Vielfalt in Bewegung”) (Advisory Board)
- Committee for Gender Equality in Sport Science of the German Society of Sport Science (Member)
- German Sociological Association (Member)
- German Society of Sport Science (Member)
- Academy for Ethics in Medicine (Member)
- The German Society for Philosophy, working group “Philosophy of Digitality” (Member)