Current projects

Participatory Procedures and Processes in Research Organizations. Impact on Research Agendas and Challenges for the (further) Development of Transdisciplinary Methods (PaFo)
Real-World Laboratory “Autonomous Driving in the Mobility System of the Future” (funded as part of the KIT Excellence-Strategy)
Linking real-world laboratory and disciplinary research – Fostering novel scientific insights and sustainability transformation (LinkLab)

Fields of work

Science and Technology Studies
Impact assessment and evaluation procedures
Sociology of emotions and emotional evaluation
Participatory methods
Real-world lab research

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Professional background

since 2023	Post-Doc at ITAS
2023	PhD, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Title: Engaging the Moral Economy of Prototypes or How Emotions Drive Innovation. An Ethnographic Exploration in the Innovation-Making Field)
2022 - 2023	Scientific staff member in the project “AnthropoScenes”, Technische Universität Berlin
2021 - 2022	Stay abroad with focus on sociology in the context of the doctorate, European University Institute Florence
2020 - 2022	Scientific staff member in the project “Societal Impact @ BUA”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2018 - 2019	Scientific staff member in the project “PROLAB”, Technical University of Munich
2016 - 2017	Stay abroad with studies in sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2014 - 2018	Studies of European Ethnology (M.A.), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2011 - 2014	Studies of Comparative Cultural Studies and Political Science (B.A.), University of Regensburg

Publications

2024

PhD Theses

Sörgel, F. (Ed.)
Emotional Drivers of Innovation : Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes. PhD dissertation
2024, August. transcript Verlag. doi:10.14361/9783839471470

Presentations

Sörgel, F.
Emotionen und Innovation. Aushandlungs- und Bewertungsprozesse während der Prototypenentwicklung
2024. Innovationskolloquium (Seminar), BA Soziale Innovation (2024), Munich, Germany, November 7, 2024

Sörgel, F.
The Management of Knowledge by Scientists in Participatory Procedures and Processes
2024. 22nd Annual STS Conference Graz 2024 „Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies“ (2024), Graz, Austria, May 6–8, 2024

Sörgel, F.
Wirkungsmessung partizipativer Formate (in Reallaboren)
2024. DVWG-Summit (2024), Wuppertal, Germany, April 16–17, 2024

Sörgel, F.; Albiez, M.; Weinberger, N.
Wirkungsmessung partizipativer Formate in Reallaboren
2024. "Reallabore – ExperimentierRäume für den Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft" (2024), Dresden, Germany, April 11–12, 2024

Sörgel, F.; Moser, C.
Versuch einer formativen Evaluation der Reallabore des KIT
2024. "Reallabore – ExperimentierRäume für den Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft" (2024), Dresden, Germany, April 11–12, 2024

2023

Journal Articles

Weiser, A.; Wanner, M.; Stelzer, F.; Lang, D. J.; Berger, H.; Förster, A.; Liedtke, C.; Micklitz, H.-W.; Niewöhner, J.; Parodi, O.; Potthast, T.; Schneider, F.; Sörgel, F.; Ziehl, M.; Ziemer, G.
Exploring fruitful links between real-world laboratory and disciplinary research : Introduction of the DKN Future Earth working group LinkLab
2023. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32 (3), 335–337. doi:10.14512/gaia.32.3.13

Presentations

Sörgel, F.; Scherz, C.; Hahn, J.; Weinberger, N.; Milchram, C.; Maia, M., Albiez, Marius
Partizipation und Forschungsorganisationen: Impact Messung und Integration von Ergebnissen
2023, November 24. 2nd PartWiss23: Tagung zur Vernetzung und Stärkung von Partzipaton in der Wissenschat (PartWiss 2023), Chemnitz, Germany, November 22–24, 2023