Henning Hillmann is Professor of Economic and Organizational Sociology at the University of Mannheim and is a faculty member of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Sociology from Columbia University in New York and his M.A. (Diplom) in the Social Sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin. Before joining the Sociology Department at the University of Mannheim in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University (2004–2010).

His areas of expertise include social network analysis and the uses of historical methods in economic sociology and organzational theory. He is particularly interested in the social relational foundations of cohesion and the political consequences of economic action.