Professional Experience and Education
Professional Experience
since 10/2011
- Visiting professor at Free University Berlin
04/2011-09/2011
- Private lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin
04/2010-03/2011
- Visiting professor of political science at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
04/2007-09/2009
- Visiting professor of comparative politics at the Humboldt-University Berlin
01/2005-01/2006
- Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service and private lecturer at the Humboldt-University Berlin
01/2002-01/2005
- Visiting Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (USA) Department of Political Science and Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
10/2000-04/2001
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Visiting Professor of Political Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Chair of German and Comparative Politics
10/1998-03/2000
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Visiting Professor of Political Science, Humboldt University Berlin, Chair of Comparative Politics
11/1992-09/1998
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Assistant Professor, Humboldt University Berlin, Chair of German Politics
01/1992-09/1992
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Researcher in the social sciences, Free University of Berlin, Department of Political Science
01/1991-11/1991
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Visiting scholar, Centre de Recherche sur le Politique, l’Administration et le Territoire (C.E.R.A.T.), Grenoble, France
03/1986-06/1990
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Research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin)
05/1981-04/1982
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Civil servant, local government of Weinstadt
Education
January 1997
- Postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in political science; Lecturer (Privatdozent) in political science at Humboldt University Berlin (since October 1997)
July 1991
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Ph.D. in political science, Free University of Berlin; Dissertation: Theories on Corporatism
December 1987
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Diplom (master’s degree) in political science
1982-1987
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Study of political science, Free University of Berlin and the London School of Economics (1984-1985)
November 1980
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State examination, Diplom in public administration, Fachhochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (University of Applied Sciences), Kehl/Rhine
1978-1980
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Studies of Public Administration, Fachhochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Kehl/Rhine
1975-1978
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Training for public service