Prof. Dr. phil. habil.

Lehrgebäude 10
Raum 429

T: +49 (0) 355 69 3148
F: +49 (0) 355 69 3020
steffen.gross(at)b-tu.de

Office hours:

Mondays from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (during the lecture period, otherwise by appointment)

Main areas of research and teaching:

Cultural economics (including practical cooperation with the Brandenburg Cultural Foundation Cottbus), scientific theory and methodology of economics, complexity economics, (cultural) economic aspects of security policy

Module coordinator for

Cultural Economics and Cultural Management (11928, summer semester),

Introduction to Economics – Theory and Practice (13980 – winter semester),

Study Techniques and Methods (14188 – winter semester)

Political and economic challenges for administrative action (14189 - winter semester)

Career

• High school diploma in Cottbus,
• Studied economics at the Technical University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, graduated with a degree in economics under Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kromphardt and Prof. Dr. Charles Beat Blankart,
• Started career as a consultant at the Brandenburg Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, and Women's Issues – State Agency for Structure and Labor, development of structural support programs,
• part-time doctoral studies at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on “Economics between theoretical fiction and cultural reality” (doctoral supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Poser),
• Research and teaching at Wolfson College, Oxford, primarily as part of the Isaiah Berlin Papers Project, teaching economics and history of ideas,
• Research fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG),
• Research assistant at the BTU Cottbus
• Lecturer in economics at the Saxon Academy of Economics and Administration,
• Habilitation with the thesis “Cognitio Sensitiva” (reviewers: Prof. Dr. Klaus Kornwachs, Prof. Dr. Hans Poser, Prof. Dr. Walter Ch. Zimmerli),
• Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics – Microeconomics and continuing member of Wolfson College, Oxford (collaboration on the Isaiah Berlin Legacy Project).

Memberships in professional associations:

• International Network for Economic Methodology (INEM),
• Friedrich August von Hayek Society,
• International Ernst Cassirer Society,
• German Society for Research on the 18th Century,
• Society for Security Policy,
• German Atlantic Society.