2012
Michael Paetau, born in Hamburg, Germany, is head of the "Center for Sociocybernetics Studies Bonn" and president of the Association "Cultures of Knowledge" (Wissenskulturen e.V.). He is board member of the "Research Committee on Sociocybernetics (RC51)" of the "International Sociological Association" (ISA) and was elected in November 2010 the new editor of the "Journal of Sociocybernetics".
He graduated as sociologist after studying sociology, philosophy, economics and history in Hamburg and Marburg, Germany. He got his doctor degree in social and economic science (Dr. rer.pol.) at the University of Bremen with a thesis on "Human-Machine-Communication" 1989.
2004 – 2005 Professor for Media and Communication Science at the University of Siegen, Faculty for Literatures, Languages and Media and 2002 – 2004 Professor for Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Faculty for Literatures and Languages.
From 2005 to 2008 he was responsible for strategy development at the "Fraunhofer Institut für Intelligente Analyse und Informationssysteme. (IAIS)"
1999 - 2002 Speaker of the research department «Informed Sustainability« of the Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems of the "German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD)". 1998 – 2002 he was head of the research team «Social Systems« of the GMD-Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, and 1995 - 1998 head of the research team «Culture - Media - Technology« of the GMD-Institute for Applied Information Technology.