Sebastian Hoffmann

Career

• since 10/2012: Research assistant at the Department of Sociology of Technology at TU Dortmund University
• 02/2013: Master of Science degree in economics (thesis topic: "Unlocking and blocking paths: Concepts for terminating socio-technical trajectories")
• 11/2011: Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a focus on sociology and business administration (thesis topic: "Investigation into the acceptance of intelligent technology in cars")

Lectures as a research assistant

• Seminars on transformation research and technology assessment (Bachelor)
• Exercise "Scientific work" (Bachelor)
• Seminars on technology management and governance (Master)
• Project seminar (Bachelor)
• Exercise "Conceptual foundations of the sociology of technology" (Bachelor)

Research projects

• MoMeEnT - Modeling the socio-technical multi-level system of energy supply and its transformation (2019-2022, funded by the DFG)
• KoRiSim - Cooperative information and risk management in sustainable grids: A simulation study (2016-2019, funded by BMBF)
• DiscGo - Governance of the Discontinuation of Socio-Technical Systems (2012-2015, funded by the DFG)
• Acceptance of the chemical industry (2011, funded and commissioned by the Chemical Foundation Social Partner Academy (CSSA))

• "Feedback and interventions for changing end-user behavior in smart grids. An application of the model of frame selection." Social Simulation Conference, Mainz in September 2019

• "Cooperative information management in the view of TA: A simulation study on future scenarios of the electricity distribution grid" 8th International Conference of the Network Technology Assessment (NTA), Karlsruhe in November 2018

• Final report on the KoRiSim project, status conference of the German government's "Electricity grids" research initiative, Berlin, November 2018

• "Modelling the governance of transitions - a simulation experiment on urban transportation", 8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Gothenburg in June 2017

• "Agent-based modeling of the governance of energy transitions", 7th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Wuppertal in September 2016

• Co-organization of the workshop "An introduction to agent-based modelling": European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), First Workshop of Research Area X (Networks), Essen in November 2015

• "The discontinuation of socio-technical regimes - Transition by 'de-construction' of actor-networks", International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST), Brighton, August 2015

• "The discontinuation of socio-technical regimes - Transition by 'de-construction' of actor-networks", European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Athens, July 2015

• "Modeling the discontinuation of the automobility regime. An integrated approach to multi-level governance", Spring Conference of the Section "Science and Technology Studies", Dortmund, June 2015

• "Governance of the Discontinuation of Socio-Technical Systems - New Concepts and Methods of Researching Technical Change", Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Trier, October 2014

• "Achieving sustainable mobility - The discontinuation of socio-technical regimes", European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Rotterdam, July 2014

• "Governing responsible discontinuation - New concepts and methods of social science TA", International Conference NTA6-TA14, Vienna, June 2014