51ÁÔÆæ

Academic staff

Tel.: +49 (0)69 798 33076
E-Mail: rossmann (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de
Office hours: by appointment per e-mail 

Room: IG 0.553 (basement)

Short biography
Timo Roßmann is a research associate with a focus on Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Here, he coordinates the ELLVIS project “Collaborative Anthropology" and is doing his PhD with Prof. Dr. Mirco Göpfert. In his PhD study (“Collaboration in Rare Disease Research, Diagnostics, and Treatment in Germany"), he studies current research, diagnostic, and treatment practices in the field of rare diseases and examines ethnographically how collaboration is enabled between and beyond epistemic communities. Previously he was a lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at 51ÁÔÆæ in Frankfurt. He studied Sociology, American Studies, Gender Studies and Science and Technology Studies in Frankfurt.


Fields of research and approaches

• (Feminist) Science and Technology Studies 
• Material Semiotics (for example Actor-Network Theory, NatureCultures, New Materialism) 
• Ethnographic und praxeological approaches  

Teaching and research interests

• Practices of care
  Regulation of bodies, health, and ecosystems | ontological politics 

• Production of knowledge
  History of Science | cultures of knowledge | information infrastructures | classification, standardization, and objectification | collaborative and interdisciplinary research methods

• Production of security
  Demography, epidemiology, and the modern state | transnational authorities and administrative processes 

University activities
At 51ÁÔÆæ Frankfurt:

11/2020–07/2022&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;&²Ô²ú²õ±è;	External lecturer (“Lehrbeauftragter") at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
01/2013–03/2017	Student research/teaching assistant and intern in the “Science, Technology, Environment" section at the Institute of Sociology (Focus areas: Biotechnology, Nature and Society as well as Sociology of Science)

Teaching and thesis supervision
At 51ÁÔÆæ Frankfurt:

Summer term 2025	BA Social and Cultural Anthropology	Theory of (Collaborative) Fieldwork
Winter term 2024/25	BA Social and Cultural Anthropology	Research Methods
Summer term 2024	MA Social and Cultural Anthropology MA Sociology MA Science and Technology Studies	Collaborative Ethnographies: Disciplines, Devices, Decoloniality
Winter term 2023/24	BA Social and Cultural Anthropology	Research Methods
Summer term 2023	BA Social and Cultural Anthropology	Theory of (Collaborative) Fieldwork
Winter term 2022/23	BA Social and Cultural Anthropology (teaching language: German)	Einführung in die Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (Introduction to Science and Technology Studies)
Summer term 2022	MA Science and Technology Studies	Research Design
Summer term 2022	MA Science and Technology Studies	Writing Lab
Winter term 2021/22	MA Science and Technology Studies	Tiny Agents
Winter term 2021/22	BA Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology (teaching language: German)	Einführung in die Kulturtheorien (Introduction to cultural theories)
Summer term 2021	MA Science and Technology Studies	Writing Lab
Winter term 2020/21	MA Science and Technology Studies	The Technopoetics of Modernity: 'No ideas but in things'

Supervision of Master's theses in the MA Science and Technology Studies:
Noah Harris, “A missed chance at a political situation? A study into Insulate Britain's mobilisation of discourses of care & expertise" (Conclusion: 2023)
Natascha Köster, “(De)Coding Gender: An Exploration of Coding Bootcamps as Inclusion Initiatives" (Conclusion: 2023)
Gauri Natarajan, “Sexual Violence in Digital Spaces: Supporting Victims of Image-Based Sexual Abuse Through Online Tools" (Conclusion: 2024)