Prof. Dr. Sven KESSELRING

Sven Kesselring is the research coordinator of the mobil.TUM - interdisciplinary project group on mobility and transport at the TU München chair for traffic engineering and control. He holds a PhD in sociology from the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München and he recently received a grant from the Erich-Becker-Stiftung (Frankfurt Airport Foundation) for his work on airports and globalization.
In summer 2008 he was a visiting professor for sociological theory at the University of Kassel.

He is the speaker of the international Cosmobilities Network (www.cosmobilities.net) which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The Cosmobilities Network supports scientific exchange, meetings, conferences and publications in the field of mobility research, including work on social, physical, cultural and virtual mobilities.

He has published extensively in the field of interdisciplinary mobilities research, and has co-edited in 2009 with Saulo Cwerner and John Urry: Aeromobilities. London: Routledge; in 2008 with Weert Canzler and Vincent Kaufmann ‘Tracing Mobilities. Towards a cosmopolitan perspective'. Aldershot, Burlington: Ashgate. His other major publications include Beck, Ulrich; Hajer, Maarten; Kesselring, Sven (eds.) (1999): Der unscharfe Ort der Politik. Opladen: Leske + Budrich; and Kesselring, Sven (2006): Pioneering Mobilities. New patterns of movement and motility in a mobile world. In: Environment and Planning A, 38, 2, pp. 269-279.