07/2024 – 06/2028
Academic staff member in the BMBF project “Interfacing Industries: Social-scientific-empirical investigation of digital platform dynamics as re-combination” (inteRKombi), JGU Mainz

08/2022 – 06/2024
Academic staff member in the BMBF joint project “Interfacing Knowledge (IN-KNOW): Development of a platform for the intelligent provision of knowledge for SMEs”, JGU Mainz

10/2021 – 07/2022
Academic staff member at the working group Media Sociology and Social Theory, Institute of Sociology, JGU Mainz

since 09/2021
Doctorate Sociology, JGU Mainz

11/2020 – 02/2021
Project staff (coordination), neogramm GmbH & Co. KG

04/2018 – 09/2020
Master’s degree in Sociology, JGU Mainz

09/2018 – 01/2019
M1 Sciences Sociales, Université Paris-Sorbonne (ERASMUS stay abroad)

10/2019 – 03/2020
Tutorial “Introduction to qualitative empirical social research”, Institute of Sociology, JGU Mainz

10/2014 – 03/2018
Bachelor of Arts Sociology and Philosophy, JGU Mainz

01/2016 – 09/2020
Scholarship student of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)

04/2021 – 09/2021
Research proposal scholarship student and junior member of the Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS), JGU Mainz

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sociologie (DGS)
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM)
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Full member and doctoral candidate representative on the executive committee of the Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS) and selection committee for exposé scholarship holders

2022
Doubali, Benjamin: Coordinates of production. Digitalization and the distributed prevention of industrial disruptions, Navigationen 22 (2), pp. 139-151.

03/2025
“Data Space Oddity: Re-Combining Expectations in Industrial Digitalization”, as part of the International Conference on Organizational Sociology (ICOS) 2025 in Hamburg.

03/2025
“In the gears of collaboration: Working on theoretical con-cepts through industrial digitalization research”, as part of the STS-Hub Conference 2025 Berlin, Panel: “Advancing Basic Research through Critical Collaborations”.

09/2024
One week until the solution: Interfacing as assembly in the “Industrial Design Sprint”, as part of the annual conference “versammeln” of the GfM (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft) in Mainz, panel: boundaries and communities: constellations of assembly

07/2024
“Making Knowledge Explicit: From Individual Matters to Organizational Responsibilities?”, at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam 2024, Panel: “The performative character of studying digitalization in organizations”, with Sascha Dickel.

05/2024
“Interfacing Knowledge?”, as part of the conference “Expertise in digital transformation” in Berlin, as part of the doctoral candidate forum (pre-conference workshop).

11/2023
“User Participation: Concepts, methods and insights from the IN-KNOW project”, as part of the joint conference of the projects of the BMBF funding priority “Future of Value Creation” 2023 in Karlsruhe, with René Fleischer.

10/2023
“Interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt IN-KNOW: Von Erfahrungswissen zu Digital Skills?”, as part of the annual conference (network forum) of the Smart Industries 2023 network in Mannheim, umbrella topic “Digital Skills”, with Kai Blümchen.

05/2023
“Interfaces and Expertise. A Transdisciplinary Approach To Researching Digitalization in Industrial SMEs” , as part of the STS Conference Graz 2023, Panel: “Bringing STS and the sociologies of work and organization together: A joint perspective for understanding digitalization?”

03/2023
“Circulating precision? The case of the connected football “, as part of the STS-Hub Conference 2023 Aachen, Panel: “Innovation Studies”, with Marie Großmann.

03/2023
“From the Laboratory to the Atelier? Circulations, digital media art and the boundaries of participatory science “, as part of the STS-Hub Conference 2023 Aachen, Walkshop “Circulating Referees”, with Guido Schmidt and Michael Kitzing.

10/2022
Participate in the experience? Digital Media Arts at the Limits of Participatory Science , as part of the INSIST Network Conference 2022 Berlin. With: Guido Schmidt and Michael Kitzing.

07/2022
Interfacing Knowledge, as part of EASST 2022 Madrid