Jens Beckert

Jens Beckert was born in 1967 and has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and Professor of Sociology in Cologne since 2005. He has previously taught in Göttingen, New York, Princeton, Paris, and at Harvard University. In 2005 he was awarded the Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and in 2018 the German Research Foundation’s Leibniz Prize. He also received the Karl Polanyi Prize from the German Sociological Association for his book Imagined Future.