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Dr. Dennis Krämer

about me

Father of two (3,5 years), grew up with a Turkish mother and a German father, plays computer games since childhood, grows hot chili peppers under artificial light, plays a duduk to annoy the neighbors.

Scientific Education

2015-2019

PhD (Dr. phil.) 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 „Intersexualität im Sport – Eine Diskursanalyse über die mediale und medizinische Verhandlung des intersexuellen Körpers im modernen Sport“)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Arne Dekker
Grade: summa cum laude

2011-2014

PhD (Dr. phil.) University of Münster in Cultural Anthropology and Psychology
Continuation of doctorate at the University of Hamburg

2005-2010

M.A. in Sociology with minors in Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, Educational Science, University of Münster
Grade: 1,2 (among best 5% of the class)

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 (partic. Intersex/DSD and Transgender in Sport and Medicine)
  • Sociology of Sport, Technology, and Body
  • Technological resilience and crisis research (partic. Health Technology, “Pandemic Preparedness”)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (partic. discourse analysis, narrative interviews, ethnography, systematic and scoping reviews, computational methods for analysis of qualitative data analysis)
  • German-Japanese Exchange on Health Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education (partic. areas of application, expectations and usage behavior of students)

Academic Involvement

Since 06/2024

Principal Investigator: “Resilient Healthcare in Times of Multiple Crises: Connecting Germany and Japan” (RE-CARE) – German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant No. KR 5454/1-1

Since 01/2024

Postdoctoral Researcher and Referent for Research at the University of Münster

Since 06/2023

Principal Investigator: “Artificial Intelligence in Sports” (AIS) (own resources project)

04/2022-09/2023

Interim Professor (W2) for Sociology of Sport and Health and Head of Department – at Georg-August-University of Göttingen

03/2023-04/2023

Visiting Researcher at the 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 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 at the University of Hamburg

09/2013-09/2016

Research Associate at the Leuphana University Lüneburg

08/2010-09/2010

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

08/2008-05/2010

Student Assistant at the Institute for Sex Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf; Student assistant: DFG project “Treatment experiences and treatment satisfaction of people with different forms of intersex/DSD” (Head: Prof. Dr. Hertha Richter-Appelt) and 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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