PD Dr Tobias Köllner complements the research at the WIFU with his anthropological perspective on business families and family firms. Since 2020, he has headed a research project that examines the social, cultural and religious embeddedness of family firms and business families cross-culturally. Articles by Dr Köllner have been published by Europe-Asia Studies; Journal of Religion, State and Society; Ethnography; Qualitative Social Research and Anthropology Today, among others. From 2006 to 2009, Dr Köllner worked as a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and completed his dissertation on the relation between businesspeople and orthodox religion in contemporary Russia at the University of Leipzig in 2011. Subsequently, he conducted a research project funded by the German Research Foundation that formed the basis for his habilitation, which he completed in 2019.

Main areas of work, research and interest

• Embeddedness of economic activity
• Cross-cultural comparisons and anthropology
• Economy and religion
• Russia and Eastern Europe

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