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 digitalization and automation and their connection to changes in work organization, skill requirements, and workforce 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. His most recent research projects focus on the transformation of occupations in the context of the increasing use of AI, processes of negotiation and co-determination in digitalization processes, and the automation of work processes in industry and the service sector.
Positions
Martin Krzywdzinski holds the following positions at the Weizenbaum Institute:
- Director
- Member of the Board
- 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 and usage of AI in the workplace
- global value chains
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Since 2024
The ambivalence of transparency in digital HR systems (funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation)
2024-2026
Algorithmic management and codetermination in the German platform economy (funded by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs)
2023-2025
Global production after Covid-19 (funded by the DFG)
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)
- Steering Committee 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 Sektion Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie (Vorstandsmitglied). German Sociological Association (DGS) (from November 2017 until October 2020)
- Steering Committee (International). GERPISA - The International Network of Automobile (since January 2012)
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