Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. He works in the fields of comparative welfare research, social inequality, and European integration. He has published widely on citizens’ attitudes towards the welfare state and on the relations between welfare state institutions and public support. His work examines the impact of Europeanization on social inequalities and the emergence of new social cleavages within the European social space. He also works on the transformation of the European middle classes, border issues and migration.
His research has earned him multiple recognitions, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation in 2021, the Communicator Award in 2023, and the Schader Award in 2023. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea since 2021.
Prof. Mau's publication record includes works like “The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany Compared” (2003), “Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds Beyond the Nation-State" (2010)”, and “Lebenschancen: Wohin driftet die Mittelschicht?” (2012), among others.
Prof. Mau completed his Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence in 2001, with his dissertation titled, “The Moral Economy of Welfare States. Britain and Germany Compared.” Prior to that, he studied sociology and political science at Freie Universität Berlin, earning his diploma in sociology in 1997. Prof. Mau was a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies for the 2017 - 2018 academic year.
