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Sven Kesselring is a German sociologist. He studied sociology, political science, and psychology and holds a PhD in sociology from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a doctoral degree (habilitation) from Technische Universität München. Since 2015, he has had a research professorship in 'Automotive Management: Sustainable Mobilities' at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany and from 2011-15, he was Professor in 'Mobility, Governance and Planning' at Aalborg University, Denmark. Since 2004, he has been the Director of the international Cosmobilities Network (www.cosmobilities.net) and from 2014-16 he was Vice President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility (T2M).

In 2016 he became the Co-Editor of the Routledge journal Applied Mobilities (with Kevin Hannam and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen). He was a Research Fellow at Hans Böckler Foundation, Erich Becker Foundation and in 2003 he won a research grant from the German Research Association. From October 2017 to July 2018 he was Fellow-in-Residence at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research focuses on mobilities theory, social change and reflexive modernization, corporate mobilities regimes, urban sociology, auto- and multi-mobility, aeromobilities, and future research. Sven is the author of Aeromobilities (Routledge) with John Urry and Saulo Cwerner.

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen is Professor in Urban Planning and Sustainable Mobilities at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has an interdisciplinary background linking sociology, geography, urban planning, and the sociology of technology. Her research has been strongly inspired by the mobilities turn. Previously her work was primarily focused on investigating everyday life praxis's of mobilities and in her book Mobility in Daily Life: Between Freedom and Unfreedom was focused on the importance of comprehending the