Matthias Gross Explained

Matthias Gross (German spelling: Groß, pronounced pronounced as /de/, ; born 1969) is a German sociologist and science studies scholar. He currently is Full Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Jena,^[1] and by joint appointment, at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany.

Gross received a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University in 2001. Between 2002 and 2005 he co-directed the research group “Real World Experiments” at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies at Bielefeld University^[2] and from 2005 to 2013 he was senior research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre in Leipzig. He held research positions and visiting professorships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Loyola University Chicago, and the Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany. He is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Nature + Culture.^[3] Between 2006 and 2018 he was chair of the German Sociological Association's Section on Environmental sociology and from 2011 to 2019 he was chair of the European Sociological Association's Research Network on Environment and Society. In 2013 he has won the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence from the British Sociological Association for his paper on Georg Simmel and nonknowledge^[4] and in 2018 the Frederick H. Buttel Prize of the International Sociological Association (ISA)^[5]

Selected books

• Book: Debra J. Davidson . Matthias Gross (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society. Oxford . Oxford University Press . 2018 . 978-0-190-63385-1.
• Book: Audrone Telesiene . Matthias Gross (eds.). Green European: Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes in Europe in a Historical and Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective. London . Routledge . 2017 . 978-1-138-12395-3.
• Book: Matthias Gross . Linsey McGoey (eds.) . Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. London . Routledge . 2015 . 978-0-415-71896-7.
• Book: Matthias Gross . Rüdiger Mautz . Renewable Energies. London . Routledge (Key Ideas Series) . 2015 . 978-0-415-85861-8.
• Book: Matthias Gross . Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design. Cambridge, MA . MIT Press (Inside Technology Series) . 2010 . 978-0-26201-348-2.
• Book: Matthias Gross . Harald Heinrichs (eds.) . Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges . Dordrecht . Springer . 2010 . 978-9-04818-729-4.
• Book: Matthias Gross . Inventing Nature: Ecological Restoration by Public Experiments . Lanham, MD . Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books) . 2003 . 978-0-73910-504-7.

External links

• Personal Homepage at the University of Jena
• Homepage at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig
• Sociology of Ignorance Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chair of Environmental Sociology - FSU Jena . 8 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180927145440/http://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/en/Departments/Environmental+Sociology+.html . 27 September 2018 . dead .
2. Web site: Website of Bielefeld's IWT . 2 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181207045535/http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/iwt/ . 7 December 2018 . dead .
3. Web site: Nature and Culture, Journal Website . 2 October 2013.
4. Web site: The British Sociological Association's Sage Prize Page (Archives) . 11 January 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141021043812/http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/SAGEPrizeArchive.aspx . 21 October 2014 .
5. Web site: Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology . 6 December 2018. .