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Faculty 5
Chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment Prof. Dr. phil. Melanie Jaeger-Erben

Max Czymai

Erich Weinert Str. 1
03046 Cottbus

cyzmai(at)b-tu.de

Max Czymai is an environmental sociologist specialising in participation research and citizen science. He works in the SensEm project and is doing his doctorate at BTU on the topic of "The "Cultural Theory of Risk" and the transdisciplinary development of adaptation measures for dealing with environmental risks in a socio-spatial context".

Study

10/2017 - 05/2020Master's programme in Sociology at the J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Thesis on "The reform process of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - An analysis of the disputes over hegemony"
10/2012 - 05/2017Bachelor's degree in Sociology (minor subject: Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology) at the J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Thesis on the topic "Agrofuels: Part of the solution or part of the problem? A comparison of NGO perspectives"

Activities

06/2020 - 5/ 2023Research assistant to Prof. Dr B. Blättel-Mink in the HLNUG-funded project "Impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems and water supply in the Rhön biosphere reserve: Participatory risk assessment and development of adaptation measures (KlimaRhön)"
11/2019 - 05/2020Student (research) assistant at the Chair of Sociology with a focus on Industrial and Organisational Sociology at the J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Prof. Dr. B. Blättel-Mink

Max Czymai is an environmental sociologist specialising in participation research and citizen science. He works in the SensEm project and is doing his doctorate at BTU on the topic of "The "Cultural Theory of Risk" and the transdisciplinary development of adaptation measures for dealing with environmental risks in a socio-spatial context".