Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
About
Martin Krzywdzinski is Director at the Weizenbaum Institute, Head of the Research Group “Globalization, Work and Production” at the WZB Social Science Center Berlin and Professor of International Labor Relations at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. Martin received his doctorate and habilitation from the Free University of Berlin.
His research focuses on technological change at work from a sociological perspective, and in particular on automation processes and their relationship to changes in work organization, skill requirements, and employment structures. His research has an international comparative orientation. Martin is a member of the Program Committee of the DFG Priority Program “Digitalization of the World of Work”, the Steering Committee of the GERPISA automotive research network, and the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board. 3. Martin has a long record of international research projects. His recent research focuses on the development of the platform economy and working conditions on platforms, the digitalization and automation of industrial work processes, and processes of negotiation and co-determination of technological change in the workplace.
Positions
Martin Krzywdzinski holds the following positions at the Weizenbaum Institute:
- Director
- Member of the Board
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Principal Investigator (PI), Research Group: Working with Artificial Intelligence
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Fields of Research
Martin Krzywdzinski conducts research on:
- sociology of work
- digitalization of work
- global value chains
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Since 2020
Fairwork (gefördert vom Bundesministerium für internationale Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung)
2020-2023
Automatisierung und Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt in Folge der COVID19-Krise (gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales)
2020-2021
Skills, Artificial intelligence and Labour (gefördert von der Volkswagen Stiftung)
Seit 2017 Promotionskolleg "Gute Arbeit" (gefördert von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
Memberships, committees and functions
- Advisory board Research Advisory Board Industry 4.0. Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (since May 2023)
- Advisory board "Future of Work". Industrial Union of Metalworkers (IG Metall) (from November 2021 until November 2023)
- Committee Arbeitsgruppe "Zukunft der Arbeit nach Corona". Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (from March 2021 until August 2023)
- Member Steering Committee of the Priority Program “Digitalization of the Working Worlds”. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (since April 2019)
- Advisory board Research Advisory Board of the "Work of the Future" Program (Mitglied im Beirat). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (from September 2018 until September 2020)
- Executive board (Vorstandsmitglied). Sektion Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (from November 2017 until October 2020)
- Steering Committee (International). GERPISA - The International Network of Automobile (since January 2012)
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