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Social Science Methodology, Historical Sociology, Social Processes, Sociology of Space, Economic Sociology

Nina Baur is Professor for Methods of Social Research at Technische Universität Berlin. Her main research fields are social science methodology, historical sociology and economic sociology.

She was Secretary (2010 – 2014), President (2014 – 2018) and Past President (2018 – 2022) of the Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology (RC33) and since 2010, she has been Board Member first of the Working Group (WG02) and then of the Research Committee (RC56) on Historical Sociology of the International Sociology Association (ISA). She also was Deputy Chairwoman of the User Advisory Board (2008 – 2014) and then TU Berlin Representative in the General Assembly (since 2016) of the „Society of Social Science Infrastructure Institutions e.V.“ (GESIS), Board Member of the “Association of Social Science Institutes e.V.“ (ASI) (2011 – 2014), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Complaints Council of the Council of German Market and Social Research e.V. (2011 – 2014). She is member of the DFG scientific networks on “Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research in Empirical Social Research - Interdisciplinary Network on Methodology and Fields of Application of Methodologically Integrative Research” (MMMR) (2017 – 2020) and „Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a Praxeology of Surveying (17th – 21st Century)” (2024 – 2026). From 2020 to 2024, she was Director of the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS), which linked academic institutions from 48 countries in 8 world regions. Since 2007, she has been one of the editors of the Journal „Historical Social Research“ (HSR) and, since 2017, member of the advisory board of the “Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie” (KZfSS).

Since 2018, she has been member of the Collaborative Research Center “Refiguration of Spaces” (CRC 1265) and Member of the Expert Council for Consumer Affairs (SVRV) at the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV), since 2012 she is “Gründungsbotschafterin” (Founding Ambassador) of TU Berlin. She has also been Member of the Cluster of Excellence UniCat (Unifying Concepts in Catalysis) (2011 – 2016) and the Research Training Group “Innovation Society Today: The reflexive production of the new” (2012 – 2021), Board Member of the Section “Economic Sociology” (2016 – 2019) and Member of the Council (2011 – 2019) of the German Sociological Association (DGS) as well as Member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Market Watchdog of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (2019 – 2023).