Julian Hamann is a Postdoc at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He is a sociologist working in sociology of science, higher education studies, and the sociologies of knowledge and culture. His present work touches on topics like evaluation and boundaries, subjectivity and performativity, academic knowledge and academic careers, and power and social inequality. Julian Hamann has been a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Warwick, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, and Harvard University, MA, USA.