Steffen Mau teaches macrosociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His most recent books are "Das metrische Wir. Über die Quantifizierung des Sozialen“ (2017) and "Lütten Klein. Leben in der ostdeutschen Transformationsgesellschaft" (2019). He was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2021.