Short Bio
Fellow at Institute for Sociology as ZEVEDI Young Investigator | TU Darmstadt
Lecturer and Researcher (“Akademische Rätin auf Zeit”) | Institute for Sociology | Justus Liebig University Giessen (on leave 4/2024 - 03/2025)
Co-PI of research project Financial Infrastructures and Geoeconomic Security | Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security | Justus Liebig University Giessen
PI of research project Money as Data | Center Responsible Digitality | Darmstadt
Editor | Finance and Society Journal
An extended CV can be downloaded here
Previous Positions
Visiting Professor (Professurvertretung) of Interntional Relations and International Political Economy | Goethe University Frankfurt, 10/2021-03/2023
Research Fellow | Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, 03/2022
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science | University of Amsterdam, Part of project FOLLOW | Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), supported by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), led by prof. Marieke de Goede, 01/2019-12/2020
Education
Dr. phil. | Philipps-University Marburg, 2018 (summa cum laude)
Thesis: Political Security and Financial Stability following the Financial Crisis. Actors and Epistemologies of Financial Regulation
Contact
carola.westermeier@sowi.uni-giessen.de
Memberships
German Sociological Association (DGS) and Section of Economic Sociology within the German Sociology Association
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association (ISA)
European International Studies Association (EISA)
German Political Science Association (DVPW) and Section International Poltitical Economy
Associate of DFG-Scholars’ Network Sociology of Economic Knowledge