Hanna Göbel is head of the department „Methods of Urban Practice" (MuP) since 2025. She previously worked as an acting professor for "Urban Anthropology and Ethnographic Methods" at HafenCity University between 2022-2024. Her research focus crosses urban studies, anthropology and sociology of the body, cultural sociology and cultural studies, science & technology studies, ethnographic methods. She is a sociologist and has worked as an academic member of staff at Universität Konstanz and Universität Hamburg. Currently, she works on bodily dis/abilities and (digital) technologies, aesthetic diversity of forms in society and design (together with Sophia Prinz, ZHdK Zürich), and on a sociology of audiences at the intersection of urban spaces and digital publics.