Torsten Heinemann

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Torsten Heinemann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg, where his particular focus lies on questions of Social Problems and Social Control. In 2015, he was appointed Marie Curie Fellow of the University of Berkeley. Previously, he held the position of Senior Research Fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin. His PhD was funded by the German National Academic Foundation and he was also Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and New York University, as well as Scholar in Residence at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva. His research interests include questions on the societal implications of medical, genetic and neuroscientific research.