Maren Hartmann is currently a Riksbanken Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Lund in Sweden. Since December 2014 she has been professor of communication and media sociology at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Furthermore, she has been the academic director of the Vilém Flusser Archive since February 2016. The stations of her career include several universities in Germany and the UK, but also Belgium and Denmark. Her dissertation "Technologies and Utopias. The cyberflaneur and the experience of being online“ was followed by research on media appropriation, in particular the concept of domestication, and the question of mobile media, mobilities, urban contexts, materialities and time. In addition to media & cultural studies, her professional expertise also includes communication studies and sociology.