Torsten is a professor of sociology and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at RWTH Aachen University. He is also the chair of the technology and diversity program at RWTH. His research interests are in science and technology studies with a special focus on biomedicine, genetics, and neuroscience, medical sociology, diversity studies, social theory, and public engagement in science and technology. He is particularly interested in the use of biotechnologies and biomedicine in order to tackle social problems. His work on health and illness, societal influences on and social implications of biotechnologies, and epistemological foundations of science is published in Sociology, Science, Technology and Human Values, Nature Genetics, the European Journal of Human Genetics and featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CNN, NPR, and Bloomberg Businessweek among others.