Prof. Dr Sina Farzin has been appointed Professor of Sociological Theory at the Institute of Social Sciences. She was previously Professor of General Sociology and Sociological Theory at the University of Federal Armed Forces in Munich. 

Farzin studied European Culture and Economy and German Literature, Social Sciences and Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum. In 2009, she completed her doctorate at the University of Bremen, where she subsequently worked as aa research fellow. In 2012, Farzin took up a junior professorship for sociological theory at the University of Hamburg, before she was appointed as a professor in Munich in 2019.

Her main research interests focus on sociological theory, social theory, cultural and literary sociology and the sociology of knowledge. Farzin explores the question of how knowledge is created and made available in our complex and differentiated society. In the interdisciplinary network “Fiction meets Science”, she researches the question of how novels, films or series represent science and how this knowledge is received. She is also interested in the role of aesthetic forms in science and how they shape knowledge production.