phone: +44 (0)24 7652 2148

email: Julius.Kob@wbs.ac.uk

Room: 3.137

Profile (biography)

Julius Kob is a Research Fellow in the Organisation and Work (OW) Group at Warwick Business School in the Katharina Dittrich’s UKRI-funded project “Financially redesigning the Anthropocene: Investigation tools, data, and practices for climate risks and target”. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Edinburgh, UK, for research on catastrophe modelling in (re)insurance and capital markets and the role of finance in the Anthropocene. He has been a visiting researcher at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School, USA, and at the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University, USA. Julius holds an MSc in economic sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and a BA in sociology and psychology from Hamburg University, Germany.

Research interests

Economic sociology, science and technology studies, social studies of finance, pragmatism, ANT, climate change & catastrophes, climate-related financial risk, natural disaster risk and finance, the Anthropocene, epistemology and ontology of environmental change, qualitative methods, ethnography.

Publications

Kob J (2020) Curating Disaster: A Way to Turn Science into Action in Times of Corona Pandemic. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(5), pp. 642-651.