Office hours

During the lecture-free period, the office hours take place online (via Zoom or Skype) every Thursday between 10:00 and 11:30 a.m. or by prior appointment. Registration via email (maximilian.mayer@uni-bonn.de) required. Contact: Room 4.011b, Phone: +49 (0)228 73 5640.

Profile

Dr. Maximilian Mayer is Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology at University of Bonn. He was assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2019-2020). He is also research fellow at Renmin University Beijing (2018-2020), worked as Research Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai (2015-2018) and was senior researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University Munich (2018-2019). Maximilian worked at the Bonn University’s Center for Global Studies (CGS) as managing assistant and senior fellow (2009-2015). Maximilian holds a master degree from Ruhr University Bochum and obtained his PhD at Bonn University. His research interests include the global politics of science, innovation, and technology; China’s foreign and energy policy; global energy and climate politics; theories of International Relations. Maximilian presents regularly at international conferences, publishes his research in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored seven books including China’s Energy Thirst: Myth or Reality? (2007 together with Xuewu Gu), Changing orders: transdiciplinary analysis of global and local realities (2008, co-editer), two-volumes on The Global Politics of Science and Technology (2014, lead editor). He is coeditor of Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics (Palgrave, 2016) and edited Rethinking the Silk-Road: Chinas Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations (Palgrave, 2018). Maximilian was visiting scholar at Harvard Kennedy School, Program on Science, Technology and Society, and section co-chair of STAIR (Science, Technology, Arts and international relations) of the International Studies Association (2015-2017) and STAIR program chair (2014-2015). Furthermore, he is part of the research group The Second Cold War Observatory.

Full CV here. More information on the website of the Institute for Political Science and Sociology.

Ongoing Research Projects

• Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects
• Autonomy and autonomous systems
• Asia-European Consortium on AI Research (AECAIR)
• Katekisama
• Netzwerk KI und digitale Autonomie in Wissenschaft und Bildung (KIAuBi)
• Tech Middle Power Cooperation

Former Research Projects

• Surveying Strategic Digital Politics (funded by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)
• No-Covid-Strategie
• Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics
• Assessment of Evolving International Infrastructures and Pandemic Management
• Digital Fragmentations and Digital Sovereignty (funded by TRA4 of the University of Bonn)

Selected Events

• ASC Annual Meeting 2024 (11/2024)
• Lunch talk at CASSIS with experts from the field of space policy and space security (10/2024)
• Summer School on "Artificial Intelligence, Social Machines, and the Future of Democratic Societies" (09/2024)
• Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections (usually once a month)
• Roundtable “What is Global China?”, Jagiellonian University Kraków (10/2023)
• Lecture Series "Digitalization of Memory Practices and Heritage in Global Perspectives" (Summer semester 2023)
• Autonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society (11/2022)
• Fifth AECAIR International Conference: Artificial Intelligence Solutions in a Turbulent World (11/2022)
• „China in der deglobalen Konstellation“, Dialog with Heinz Bude in the Series „Krieg und Frieden--Streit ums Politische“ (11/2022)
• Fourth AECAIR International Conference: Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence (12/2021)
• International Security Forum Bonn 2021: Special Focus Day "The Rise of Eastern Modernity? European Responses to China’s Global Role” (9/2021)
• Der Westen liegt auch im Osten. Wie eine europäische Initiative im „Indo-Pazifik“ aussehen könnte (1/2021)
• International Security Forum Bonn 2020: Special Focus Day on "What to Learn from the Pandemic: Security in the Light of COVID-19" (12/2020)
• China as Digital Superpower: An American-German Workshop on Digital Infrastructure and Digital Security (12/2020)
• Framing the Future of AI: Policy Dilemmas and Solutions (11/2020)
• EU-Korea convergence and partnerships 10 years after the EU-Korea FTA (11/2020)
• Seminarreihe: Innovation in Health Governance and AI (6/7 2020)