Curriculum Vitae

Short Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Short vita
PRESENT POSITIONS Professor Emeritus of Political Economy Emeritus at the Free University of Berlin Director Emeritus at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)
RESEARCH INTERESTS Labour Market and Employment Policy, Comparative Employment Systems, Evaluation Research, Welfare State, Social Justice
EDUCATION Studies in Political Science, Sociology and History at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and the Free University of Berlin; Diploma and Ph.D. in Political Science; Habilitation in Political Economy

1970 – 1974 Lecturing Political Theory and Methodology at Free University of Berlin
1974 – 1979 Research Fellow and project leader at the International Institute of Management of the Science Centre Berlin
1979 – 1989 Deputy Director for Evaluation Research of Labour Market Policy at the Science Centre in Berlin, and Senior Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin in Political Economy
1989 – 2008 Director of the Department ‘Labour Market Policy and Employment’ at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), and University Professor of Political Economy at the Free University of Berlin
2001, 2005 Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
1987 – 2008 Guest Professor at the Universities of Paris I, VIII; Stockholm, Aalborg, Linnaeus University (Sweden)
2009, 2010 Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam
2006, 2012 Appointment as Honoray Doctor at the Linnaeus University (Sweden) and the University of Aalborg (Denmark);