Dr. Andreas Anton 

Honorary Fellow

Biography

Andreas Anton studied sociology, history and cognitive science at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany. He then worked for two years for the political consulting agency Prognos AG in Basel, Switzerland. From 2013 to 2017, he completed his PhD in sociology in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on how topics such as parapsychology, occultism, and alternative medicine were dealt with in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Since 2017, he has worked as a research associate at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany. Since July 2023, he has been an Honorary Fellow of Durham University (UK). His current research interests include sociological aspects of SETI research (exosociology) and sociological analyses of conspiracy theories. His latest book publication is Meeting the Alien: An Introduction to Exosociology (Springer, 2023). 

Contact: andreas.anton@durham.ac.uk