Dr. phil. Alexander I. Stingl, Mag.Art.(Dr.phil. 2008 in sociology, Magister Artium 2005 in sociology, American studies, and philosophy, both at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).Dr. Stingl is currently senior lecturer and Director of PhD Studies at the School of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Galway. He further serves as a guest lecturer at ENS Rennes and a Senior Fellow and Think Tank Program Director for the Global Research Network (GRN). He studied English,Biology, Empirical Social Research, American Cultural and Literature Studies, Economics, Philosophy, and, of course, Sociology. Besides hiscareer in academia, for two decades,hehada career in the service industry as a barkeeper, waiter, bar manager, and hotel receptionist; duringthose years he also co-founded the logistics and brand management company B6 Gastro Services GmbH. His current expertise at University of Galway as a sociologist, political ecologist, and empirical philosopher extends to Digital Culture, Bioeconomy and Ecological Sustainability, Biotechnology (re: new biomaterials), Transnational Law and Green Development Finance, Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and in the Practice of Law, and Sociological Theory (past and present). His past research includes the history the social sciences (focus on early US-American sociology and on the legacy of Enlightenment in Critical Theory), sociology of attention disorder and cognitive development, the digital divide, the sociology of the doctor-patient relationship and medical imaging, the sociology of fascism, and Immanuel Kants conceptual legacy in biology, medicine, and media amp;communication theory. He is the editor of the book series Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences, has authored four books on his own, co-written one other, edited three special issues for academic journals, and produced more than 50 published short form works for academic journals and anthologies. His research is primarily focused on these three areas: Is a theory of justice even possible (to articulate)?, What even is the object of the technosciences?, and The genealogy of the present Euromodern body (and its mind and ecology).

General Research Area Anthropocene, the Bioeconomy amp; Digital Culture in the Global Political Economy Subfields by DisciplineSociology Sociological Theory and the Sociological Imagination, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Law and Justice, Sociology of Cognition and the Body, Sociology of Culture and Economy Sociology of Digital Culture, Critical Theory, History of Sociology, , Transnational and Postcolonial SociologyScience, Technology, and Society Studies (STS) Ecosystem Services, the Bioeconomy, and Scientific Indicators of the Anthropocene and Climate Change, Humannon-human relations, Humanities amp; Social amp; Neuroscience, Digital Divide(s), PostcolonialFeminist Sociology of Science, Sociology of Sex, Gender, Sexualities, Digitalization of Health and Illness, Digitalization of ChildhoodIR and Political PhilosophyTheory Transnational Governance, Transnational Law, Global Digital Divide, Green Development Financing, Lex Extractiva, Anthropocene and IR, Global Welfare State, Climate Justice, IR amp; non-human agents, Global Health amp; Equity, International EconomicEnvironmental Law (IEL 1 amp; 2), Blue Economy and the Law of the Seas, Theories of JusticeHistory of Science and Technology History of Nature, its Scientific Indicators, and Property Law, History of the Euromodern Life Sciences (since 1700), Legitimacy of the Digital Age, Science Fiction, Science amp; Society, History of Neuroscience, Medical imaging Technologies, History of Attention as a Pathology, Roots of Social Sciences in Biology and Medicine Organization Studies Research Excellence in Science Funding , Higher Education, Systems Theory, Digitalisation of Health amp; Care Systems and Organizations Methodologies Methods (Primary) Critical Realism, Structural Realism, Discourse Analysis, the Archive, Ethnography, Symbolic Interactionism, Situational Analysis, Sequence Analysis and Case Reconstruction (Objective Hermeneutics) , Image Analysis, Qualitative Interviews, Narrative Interviews, Biographic Interviews, Historical Archival Methods, Metaphorology, Text Analysis, Semantic Qualifying Analysis, Mixed Methods (training in multivariate and cluster analysis, SYMLOG) Original MethodologiesTheories and Methodsin DevelopmentDissemination Infrastructural Genealogy, Semantic Agency Theory (SAT), Semantic Intensity Qualifying (SIQ)