Dr. Sabrina Petersohn

Sabrina Petersohn studied sociology, political sciences and public law at the University of Potsdam. She worked at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences as a research associate from 2012 until 2016. Here she was partly responsible for the project “BibPro: Research evaluation in transition: The institutionalization of bibliometrics as a scientific field and professionalization as an expert field”, a joint project with the University of Wuppertal. She studied the professionalization of bibliometrics from the perspective of different users of bibliometric expertise, such as academic librarians, expert organizations or research managers. Sabrina started work at the DZHW in April 2017 on the project “Research Core Dataset Helpdesk”. In the context of the Summer School, Sabrina Petersohn acts as a representative of the Interdisciplinary Network for Studies Investigating Science and Technology (INSIST). This network offers a workshop every year as a part of the Summer School programme.