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Status: February 29, 2024

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Name

Dr. Dennis Krämer

Affiliation

University of Münster, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences

about me

Father of two (2, 5 years), son of a mother from Turkey, infatuated with computer games since childhood, grows hot chili peppers under artificial light, plays a duduk to annoy the neighbors.

Scientific Education

2019

PhD, University of Hamburg
Thesis: Intersex in Sports – A Discourse Analysis on the Media Coverage and Medical Treatment of Intersex Athletes in Modern Sports (published in German as „Intersexualität im Sport – Eine Diskursanalyse über die mediale und medizinische Verhandlung des intersexuellen Körpers im modernen Sport“)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein (Hamburg University), Prof. Dr. Arne Dekker (University Medical Center Hamburg)
Grade: summa cum laude

2010

M.A. in Sociology major with minors in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Science, University of Münster and University of Augsburg
Grade: 1,2 (among best 5%)

Awards

2023

Teaching Award in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen

2022

Teaching Award in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen

2021

Scholarship of the Global Young Faculty, Mercator Foundation

2020

PhD Thesis Award of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Sociology of the Body and Sports

2020

DOSB Research Award – German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) (3rd Place)

Research Areas

  • Gender Diversity
  • Sociology of Sport, Technology, and Body
  • Technological resilience and crisis research
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Artificial Intelligence

Academic Involvement

Since 01/2024

Postdoctoral Researcher and Referent for Research at University of Münster, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences

Since 06/2023

Principal Investigator: “Artificial Intelligence in Sports” (AIS) (private funding)

04/2022-09/2023

Interim Professor (W2) and temporarily Head of Department, Sociology of Sport and Health, University of Göttingen

03/2023-04/2023

Visiting Researcher at Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan

11/2021-12/2022

Principal Investigator: „Digital Technologies of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan“ (TECHCO) – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Grant No. 01GP2182

04/2020-03/2022

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Medical Ethics und History of Medicine (Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann), Ruhr-University Bochum

10//2020-12/2021

Principal Investigator: „The Ethics of Livetracking-Applications in Connection with SARS-CoV-2“ (ELISA) – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Grant No. 01KI20527

03/2015-03/2020

Research Associate, Culture, Media and Society/Sportsociology (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein) at the University of Hamburg

09/2013-09/2016

Research Associate, Institute for Educational Sciences (Prof. Dr. Birgit Althans), Leuphana University Lüneburg

08/2010-09/2010

Visiting Student, Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam-Mickiewicz-University Posen, Polen

08/2008-05/2010

Student Assistant, Institute for Sex Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf; Student assistance in the DFG project “Treatment experiences and treatment satisfaction of people with different forms of intersexuality” (Head: Prof. Dr. Hertha Richter-Appelt) and in the BZgA-funded project “Sexual and social relationships of 17- and 18-year-old women and men” (Head: Dr. Silja Matthiesen)

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