Skip to main content
  • Education
  • Research
  • UM in the world
  • Life@UM
  • News & events
  • About UM
  • Support
  • My UM

You are here

  1. Home
  2. About UM
  3. Staff
  4. Hommels
  • Contact
  • NL
  • EN

Dr Anique Hommels (A.M.)

Currently Hommels is Associate Professor and her activities focus on management, research and teaching. Between 2015 and 2018 she was the Programme Director of the BA Arts and Culture. She was responsible for the overall quality of the programme and initiated and guided a revision of the programme, in close collaboration with colleagues and students. Her current research focuses on urban sociotechnical change, obduracy and vulnerability of (critical) infrastructure. She studies urban resilience and vulnerability, and how cities try to innovate themselves in pre- and post-disaster situations. In her research, she tries to bring together insights from Science and Technology studies (history and sociology of technology) and urban studies. Hommels teaches in the BA Arts & Culture, BA European Studies, MA ESST, and the research Master CAST.

Expertise

Anique Hommels is associate professor at the Department of Technology & Society Studies, University of Maastricht. She was trained in the interdisciplinary Arts and Science programme of Maastricht University (1991-1995). In her PhD thesis she concentrated on the resistance to change (‘obduracy') in urban sociotechnical transformation processes. A book (Unbuilding Cities - Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change (2005). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press), based on her thesis, was published by MIT Press in 2005 (paperback edition Fall 2008). After her PhD, she worked as a researcher at MERIT/Infonomics (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology) (2001-2004). At MERIT/Infonomics, her empirical focus shifted to the network society and the problem of vulnerability of sociotechnical systems. In 2003, she was awarded the Brooke Hindle Fellowship from the American Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Together with Dr. T.M. Egyedi and Prof.dr.ir W.E. Bijker she received an NWO-grant for the project "Complex interactions between international standardization and national innovation projects" (2007-2010). Hommels was also one of the pricniple investigators in the ESF/Eurocores project "Europe goes Critical: The emergence and governance of critical transnational European infrastructures" (2007-2009). An edited book, based on this project was published in 2014 by Palgrave MacMillan. Her current research focuses on urban resilience after a disaster. How can disasters be turned into positive catalyzers for urban innovation?

Professional career history

2011-present Associate Professor Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

2004-2011 Assistant Professor Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

2001-2004 Researcher MERIT/Infonomics

2001 PhD Science, Technology and Society studies

1995 MA Arts and Science
 

A.M. Hommels

Associate Professor

Science, Technology and Society studies

Technology & Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
ORCID
a​.​hommels​@​​maastricht​university​.​nl
+31(0)43 3883483

Share this page:

  • Facebook logo Facebook
  • Twitter logo Twitter
  • LinkedIn logo LinkedIn
  • Forward logo Forward
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit logo Reddit
  • Organisation
  • Faculties
  • Service centres
  • Other offices
  • Alumni
  • Staff
  • Working at UM
  • Support the university
  • Recognitions
  • UM General Privacy Statement
  • Recognition & Rewards
  • Employability
  • Diversity & Inclusivity
  • Sustainability
  • Cyber security: A joint responsibility!

Staff

A.M. Hommels

  • Research
  • Education
  • Work for third parties

UM postal address
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands

UM visiting address
Minderbroedersberg 4-6
6211 LK Maastricht
The Netherlands 
+31 43 388 2222

Follow us on Social Media
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
LinkedIn
YouTube

Disclaimer

UM Privacy Statement

Feedback

  • Education
    • Why UM?
    • Pre-bachelor's
    • Bachelor's
    • Pre-master's
    • Master's
    • Excellence and honours programmes
    • PhD
    • Professionals
    • Exchange
    • Other courses
    • Innovating education
  • Research
    • Research institutes and themes
    • Graduate schools
    • PhD
    • Research Information Portal
    • Distinguished university professors
    • Professors
    • Maastricht Young Academy
    • Research quality
    • Integrity & ethics
    • Data Science @UM
    • Open Science
  • UM in the world
    • International Classroom
    • International programmes
    • Partnerships
    • Students
    • Staff
    • Alumni
  • Life@UM
    • Study in Maastricht
    • Work in Maastricht
    • Life in Maastricht
    • Relax in Maastricht
    • Sports in Maastricht
  • News & events
    • News
    • Calendar
    • Corporate events
    • Prospective student events
    • Blog
    • Newsletters
    • Press
    • UM web magazine
  • About UM
    • Organisation
    • Faculties
    • Service centres
    • Other offices
    • Alumni
    • Staff
    • Working at UM
    • Support the university
    • Recognitions
    • UM General Privacy Statement
    • Recognition & Rewards
    • Employability
    • Diversity & Inclusivity
    • Sustainability
    • Cyber security: A joint responsibility!
  • Support
    • Before your studies begin
    • During your studies
    • Your career
    • Services and facilities
    • UM employees
    • PhDs
    • ICT Services
    • Sports
    • University Library
    • Accessibility
    • Communications guide