Thomas Lemke
Principal Investigator
Thomas Lemke studied Political Science, Sociology and Law in Frankfurt am Main, Southampton and Paris. He is Professor of Sociology with a focus on “Biotechnology, Nature and Society” at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and Honorary Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His research interests include social and political theory, studies of governmentality, new materialisms, science and technology studies. Lemke has published extensively on the social implications of the life sciences and contributed to the theoretical debates on governmentality and biopolitics. He has received national and international research grants for his work on genetic discrimination, the use of DNA analysis in immigration policies, personalized medicine and cryotechnologies.