Frank Adloff is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg and is the co-director of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”. He previously held professorships at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the FU Berlin. He was Theodor Heuss Lecturer at the New School for Social Research (NYC), Max Weber Fellow at the EUI (Florence) and Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Global Cooperation Research (Duisburg).
His research interests include social theory, conviviality, sustainability/transformation, society and nature, and civil society. At the ECH, Frank Adloff will address the question of what role the social sciences can and should play in the social-ecological transformation.