Armin Nassehi, born in 1960 in Tübingen and raised in Munich, Landshut, Tehran, and Gelsenkirchen, has been a professor of sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) since 1998. Since 2025, he has served as vice president and permanent representative of the president of LMU.

His main areas of research are sociological theory, cultural sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of knowledge. He has published extensively in these fields, including more than 20 books. Since 2012, he has been editor of the cultural journal “Kursbuch.” Recent book publications: Patterns: A Theory of the Digital Society (2019, English 2023); Unbehagen. Theory of the Overburdened Society (2021); Basic Social Concepts. A Glossary of Public Discourse (2023); Critique of the Grand Gesture. Rethinking Transformation (2024); Notes on Anti-Semitism. The Function of Anti-Semitism and the Western Self-Conception (2026).

Nassehi is, among other things, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a member of the German Ethics Council, vice-chair of the Bavarian Ethics Council, a member of the Senate of the German National Foundation, and a member of the General Assembly of the Goethe-Institut.