Academic Career
Since 4/2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
Since 1/2018
Member of the DFG Research Network “On the Way to Valuation Society??”
Since 10/2017
(Founding) member of the working group Sociology of Science and Higher Education Research in the DGS section Science and Technology Studies
Since 1/2017
Member of the DFG Research Network The Sociology of Sociological Knowledge
Since 10/2014
Lecturer at the institute for social sciences, Humboldt-Universität (Berlin, Germany)
6/2014 – 2/2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Principal Investigator in the research group science policy studies at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Since 10/2014
Member of the Executive Board and since 9/2018 Spokeswoman of the Science and Technology Research Section of the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie)
2009 – 2014
Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at Bielefeld University, IWT/Faculty of Sociology
2010
PhD (“summa cum laude”), Bielefeld university, faculty of sociology
2007
Research stay at ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) an der Universität Exeter (UK)
2006 – 2009
PhD-scholarship: Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
2005 – 2009
Member of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) and associated member of the DFG Research Training Group 724 „Entering the Knowledge Society: Institutional and Epistemic Transformations of Knowledge Production and their Social Repercussions“, Institute for science and technology studies (IWT) at Bielefeld university
2004 – 2005
Research fellow at Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin in the working group Bioethics and Science communication
2003
Research fellow in the DFG-project: Integration performance of voluntary associations, Potsdam university
1996 – 2002
Bremen university: sociology (major), philosophy and German literature and language studies (minors) (degree: magistra artium)
1995 – 1996
Kiel university (CAU): sociology( major), philosophy, pedagogics and modern German literature (minors)
Research Interests
Science communication and publication cultures, medialisation of science, digitalisation and datafication of scientific knowledge production, citizen science, valuation studies, sociological theory of society
Publications (Selection)
Franzen, Martina (2018): Die digitale Transformation der Wissenschaft (The digital transformation of science). Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 40 (4), S. 8-28.
Franzen, Martina (2017): Digitale Resonanz: Neue Bewertungskulturen fordern die Wissenschaft heraus, in WZB Mitteilungen 155, S. 30–33. Published in English Digital Impact: New Rating Cultures Challenge Academic Science, in Humane Metrics, Metrics Noir, edited by meson press 2018, S. 6-13.
Franzen, Martina (2015): Der Impact Faktor war gestern. Altmetrics und die Zukunft der Wissenschaft (The Impact Factor had it‘s day. Altmetrics and the Future of Science). Themenheft: Der impact des impact factors, Soziale Welt 66 (2), S. 225–242.
Dickel, Sascha; Franzen, Martina (2015): Digitale Inklusion: Zur sozialen Öffnung des Wissenschaftssystems (Digital Inclusion: The Social Implications of Open Science). Zeitschrift für Soziologie 44 (5), S. 330-347.
Franzen, Martina (2014): Grenzen der wissenschaftlichen Autonomie. Zur Eigengesetzlichkeit von Publikationskulturen (Limiting scientific autonomy. Publication cultures and their perforations). In: Franzen, Martina; Jung, Arlena; Kaldewey, David; Korte, Jasper (Hg.): Autonomie revisited – Beiträge zu einem umstrittenen Grundbegriff in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Politik. Sonderband 2 der Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie (ZTS), S. 374-399