Prof. Sophie Mützel
University of Lucerne
About the author
Sophie Muetzel is Professor of Sociology, with a focus on media and networks at the University of Lucerne / Switzerland. She currently leads the MA program “Media and Networks“ at the Department of Sociology, is co-initiator of the MA Computational Social Sciences (LUMACSS), and is also Vice Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Her research interests lie in the areas of economic sociology, the sociology of culture, computational text analytic methods, sociology of the digital, social network analysis and sociological theory. In Spring 2021 Sophie Muetzel received SNSF funding for “Digital payments: Making payments personal and social.”
Before becoming a full Professor in 2018, Sophie Muetzel was Assistant Professor (2014–2017) and Associate Professor (2017) at the University of Lucerne. Prior to joining the University of Lucerne, she was a Senior Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) at the Research Unit “Cultural Sources of Newness.” Sophie has been a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and a visiting professor at the University of Vienna, Department of Sociology. Between 2003 and 2008, Sophie held a post-doc position at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, her MA in Sociology at Cornell University, and her BA in Political Science at UC Berkeley.
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