Team
The IGZA team is made up of experts from various disciplines. The staff, fellows, doctoral students, student assistants and interns come from the disciplines of history, economics, political economy, sociology, statistics and archaeology.

The IGZA team is made up of experts from various disciplines. The staff, fellows, doctoral students, student assistants and interns come from the disciplines of history, economics, political economy, sociology, statistics and archaeology.


Fellow, sociologist
Philipp Staab, born in 1983, was a research associate at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research between 2008 and 2016. After completing his doctorate, he led the projects „Der entbundene Bürger“ and „Der digitale Kapitalismus“ within the research group „Zukunftsproduktion“. He was a research associate from 2016 to 2017 and has been a fellow at the Institute for the History and Future of Labour since 2017. In 2017 and 2018, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel and held a professorship in technology studies at the University of St. Gallen. In 2019, he took up the ECDF professorship „Sociology of the Future of Labour“ at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Main areas of work: Changes in the world of work, economic sociology, digitalisation, social security and social inequality, political economy.
You can find all publications by Philipp Staab here.
Contact: philipp.s.staab∂hu-berlin.de