Ana Cárdenas Tomažič

A graduate in Sociology (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile-PUC), Professor Ana Cárdenas Tomažič received an M.A. in European Political Studies from the University of Heidelberg and a Ph.D. from FU Berlin (2009). In Chile, she led a range of research projects for a number of international organizations and foundations (ILO, UNDP, GIZ and the Böll Foundation), as well as being Adjunct Professor at the Sociology Department of PUC and Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of Universidad Diego Portales (UDP). Here in Germany, she has been a researcher at the Institute for Social Research Munich (ISF Munich) and the South German Institute of Empirical Social Research (SINE Institute). In addition, she has been a faculty member of the Departments of Sociology at University of Kassel and LMU Munich, as well as lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. Since September 2022, she is a member of the scientific committee and professor at the international postdoctoral program “Trans(in)disciplinarities” (Trans(in)disciplinariedades) run jointly by the Ph.D. program in Social Sciences of Universidad Nacional de San Juan (Argentina) and Unitierra (Colombia). Professor Cárdenas Tomažič is an alumna of the DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has been a visiting scholar at the German Youth Institute (DJI) (2013); the Institute for Social Research (ISF Munich) (2014-2015); and the Sociology Department of The New School for Social Research (2019, 2021). She is a founder and member of the working group “Sustainable Work – The Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Working Society” of DKN in Future Earth (2017-2018), in addition to four working groups on “Critical Thinking and Emancipatory Practices” of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Furthermore and since 2016, Prof. Cárdenas Tomažič has co-coordinated a research line in each of these working groups – the current one running until December 2028.

From May 2023 onwards, she is also a co-founder and member of the two commissions of CLACSO on Gender Violence in Academia, which in 2025 led to the creation of the “Protocol for Care and Intervention in Situations of Gender-Based Violence from an Intersectional Perspective.” Between 2023 and 2025, she served as an elected member of the “Sociology as a Vocation” Commission of the German Sociological Association (DGS). Her latest book is titled “The (In)Visibilization Society” (Brill 2024/De Gruyter Brill 2025).