Research

Karin Knorr Cetina is Professor of Sociology and teaches at the University of Constance, Germany. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Most of her work is based on observation studies of complex expert settings - for example, she conducted so-called laboratory studies in high-energy physics (European Laboratory of Particle Physics in Geneva) and in molecular biology, and she studies global financial markets on the trading floors of large investment banks and private banks in Zurich, New York, London, and Sydney. Her recent publications include “Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge”, “The Sociology of Financial Markets” and “Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets”. She is working on a book on the social and cultural structures of global financial markets and is doing research on postsocial developments of which the work on The Synthetic Situation is a component.