Dr. Martin Gegner

Martin Gegner studied political science at FU Berlin and completed his doctorate in sociology at TU Berlin (TUB). He has worked as a researcher and/or lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin, TUB, WZB and BTU Cottbus. From 2010 to 2014, he was a guest professor of urban and architectural sociology at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and from 2017 to June 2020, he was an assistant and guest professor of political science at Turkish-German University (TDU) in Istanbul, Turkey. In spring 2025 he served as a DAAD-visiting professor for the politics of infrastructure networks of metropolises in times of climate change at Presbyterian University Mackenzie in São Paulo, Brazil. He has been a research fellow at the WZB since April 2020. In the Digital Mobility and Social Differentiation research group, he was conducting research in the Mobility2Grid project on the social acceptance of technological solutions for the energy and transport transition. He will continue this work in the Globalization, Work, and Production research group until at least February 2027.