Matthias Gross (German spelling: Groß, pronounced [gro:s], audioⓘ; born 1969) is a German sociologist and science studies scholar.
He currently is Full Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Jena,[1] and by joint appointment, at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany.
Gross received a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University in 2001.
Between 2002 and 2005 he co-directed the research group “Real World Experiments” at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies at Bielefeld University[2] and from 2005 to 2013 he was senior research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre in Leipzig.
In 2013 he has won the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence from the British Sociological Association for his paper on Georg Simmel and nonknowledge[4] and in 2018 the Frederick H. Buttel Prize of the International Sociological Association (ISA)[5]