Stefan Kühl
is professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and works as a senior consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles and Zurich. He studied sociology and history at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA), Université Paris-X-Nanterre (France) and the University of Oxford (UK). His focus of research consists of societal theory, work, industrial and organizational sociology, as well as interaction sociology.