Assistant Professor
Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)
Research Interest(s): Governance and economic organizations program : Knowledge, science, and expertise program : Work, employment, and professions program
Discipline(s): Sociology
Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions, Governance and Economic Organisations, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program
Philipp Brandt studies emerging professions, expert work and their effects in historical, economic and technological settings. His main project analyzes the construction of a professional “data scientist” identity in New York City’s tech community.
In a new project, he shifts focus to the dying profession of yellow cab drivers. Philipp combines computational methods with qualitative field observations to address these issues.
In 2023, Philipp Brandt was awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council on the Returns to work in occupational, relational, and corporate settings (2023-2028) project. Find out more
publications
Data Science for the social good (semester 2020)
Expert work in the digital age (semester 2020)
American Sociological Association; European Sociological Association; Akademie für Soziologie (AS); European Group of Organizational Studies; Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics; Center of Organizational Innovation, Columbia University (2010-2016)
2018
“Immigrants’ career changes in German organizations” Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (seed grant; Principal investigator)
2017
“Chains of opportunity in politics: An organizational analysis of politicians’ careers in the German Bundestag since 1949” Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (seed grant; Co-Pi with Henning Hillmann)
2019
Sociology and political sciences student teaching award, University of Mannheim
2010-2015
Paul F. Lazersfeld Fellow, Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA
2009-2010
President’s List, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
2016
Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, New York (USA)
Dissertation: “Mechanisms of Emergence in the Data Science Profession”
Committee: Peter Bearman (advisor), Josh Whitford, David Stark, Catherine Turco (MIT), Gil Eyal (chair)
2014
M.Phil., Sociology
2012
M.A., Sociology
2010
B.A., Jacobs University Bremen (Allemagne).
Integrated Social Sciences;
Honors: President’s List
Advisor: Christofer Edling