2016-2017 Meik worked as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at ‘Forschungsschwerpunkt DiTeS - Digitale Technologien und Soziale Dienste’ (Research Associate at Research Centre DiTeS - Digital Technologies and Social Services) at TH Köln ( Technische Hochschule Köln - University of Applied Sciences , Cologne, Germany).
Until 31 October 2013 he was employed as Research Associate at The University of Manchester (UoM) with the Manchester eResearch Centre (MeRC - at the time under www.merc.ac.uk) since the centre's launch in October 2009, following its transition from the National Centre for e-Social Science Hub (NCeSS - at the time under www.ncess.ac.uk) where he worked as a researcher between January 2007 and September 2009. A social scientist by education, he has been working interdisciplinary since 1998, focussing on the
His research interests and activities encompass adoption, use and evaluation of socio-technical systems and e-Infrastructures (i.e. new ICT, such as collaborative systems, Research Data Management Infrastructures, VRE, the Grid, and the scientific use of Web 2.0 & the Cloud) especially in research and higher education - and also eminently their emergence in traditionally more 'non-technical' disciplines like social sciences, arts and humanities - as well as broadly looking into e-Research (e-Science; e-Soci