My name is Maik Wiesen and I have been working as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center “Human Differentiation” since October 2022. My work is also associated with the “Body Sociology” working group at the Institute of Sociology, where I am currently working on my dissertation on sexual education counseling services for people with disabilities. Previously, I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and a Master of Science in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford. During my studies, I also worked as a tutor and assistant researcher at the Max Weber Institute in Heidelberg, where I supported the teaching and research activities of the Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research and Social Structure Analysis. I also worked as a student assistant for the “General Population Survey of the Social Sciences” at the Leibniz Institute in Mannheim.

Main research areas

• Sociology of the Body
• Gender, sexuality, disability
• Ethnography
• Social and cultural anthropological theories