Valentin Rauer has been teaching at TDU since 2017. Previously, he was head of a research project at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his habilitation. He received his doctorate at the University of Konstanz as part of his research project there at the Interdisziplinary Research Center “Norm and Symbol. “The cultural dimension of social integration”. He studied Sociology, Political Science and Medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg i. B. and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Valentin Rauer's publication and research topics range from Migration and Integration Sociology to Social Memory Research and Cultural Sociology to the sociology of artificial intelligence (AI). His thematic focus addresses questions about communicative practices and materialities, science-technology studies and algorithmic action. Valentin Rauer is the author of an expertise in the research network: “AI – People – Society: Holistically understanding and evaluating the change in the human-technology relationship through artificial intelligence” (KIMeGe) at the Institute for Social Science Research, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) . He is also a member of the research network “Social Scientific Memory Research”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DfG). In this context, he is co-editor of the comprehensive reference work “Handbook for Social Scientific Memory Research”. (Wiesbaden, Springer, 2023). He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS), Yale University, USA.