Dr. Alexander Wentland
Academic Career and Research Areas
Dr. Alexander Wentland holds a Magister degree in Political Science from TU Dresden and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. He finished his doctoral thesis at TU Berlin and Harvard University in 2018. At TUM, he led the DFG-funded project "Understanding Regional Innovation Cultures". Currently, he is the head of the research field “Governance & Responsibility” in the Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitain Regions (MCube) and PI in three BMBF-funded MCube projects.
Dr. Alexander Wentland conducts research at the intersection of Science & Technology Studies (STS), Sociology, and Mobilities Studies. In his group, he investigates how mobility innovation touches upon basic questions of social life and social order. He is interested in how technological trends shape the way we live, work, and plan our cities – and vice versa. In particular, he analyzes how the epistemic foundations (models, metrics, experiments) underpin and govern our current system of (auto)mobility.
Key Publications
Wentland, A; Jung, M. „Der asynchrone Weg zur urbanen Mobilitätswende“. TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, Bd. 30, Nr. 1, März 2021, S. 23–28
AbstractWentland, A. „Warum elektrische Utopien festgefahren sind: Das Imaginary Automobilität als Grenze der Verkehrswende am Beispiel der Elektromobilität in Deutschland“. Behemoth: A Journal on Civilization, Bd. 13, Nr. 1, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Januar 2020, S. 70–82
AbstractEngels, F.; Wentland A.; Pfotenhauer S., u. a. „Testing Future Societies? Developing a Framework for Test Beds and Living Labs as Instruments of Innovation Governance“. Research Policy, Bd. 48, Nr. 9, November 2019, S. 103826. DOI.org (Crossref)
AbstractWentland, A. „An automobile nation at the crossroads: Reimagining Germany’s car society through the electrification of transportation“. Imagined futures in science, technology and society, herausgegeben von Gert Verschraegen u. a., Bd. 34, Routledge, 2017, S. 137–65
AbstractWentland, A. „Imagining and enacting the future of the German energy transition: Electric vehicles as grid infrastructure“. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Bd. 29, Nr. 3, Januar 2016, S. 285–302
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