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Place of Birth: Salzburg, Austria
Date of Birth: February 26th, 1970
Family Status: Married with two children (*2002, 2005)
Nationality: Austrian
Civilian Service as a Paramedic (1988-1989)

Academic Education

2004
Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) in Political Science at the University of Bremen, Referees: Manfred G. Schmidt, Klaus Armingeon, Stephan Leibfried

1998
Doctorate Dr. phil. in Political Science (with distinction) at the University of Vienna, Referees: Emmerich Tálos and Wolfgang C. Müller

1997
Diploma study of Economics at the University of Vienna, Mag. rer. soc. oec.

1994
Diploma study in Political Science and Modern History at the University of Vienna, Mag. phil. (with distinction)

Visiting Positions and Positions Abroad

2012 - 2013
Professor (part-time) at the Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark (Odense)

SS 2009
Visiting Professor Jacobs University Bremen

WS 2008/09 and SS 2009
Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna

09/2004 - 03/2005
Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

09/2001
Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne

05/2000
Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for Europe at the University Basel

06 - 09/1997
Institute for Political science at the University Heidelberg

09/1995 - 07/1996
Institute for Political Science at the University Bern 

Academic Experience

2011
Call from the University of Vienna to a Professorthip for Social Policy Research (rejected)

Since 04/2010
Director of the Centre for Social Policy Research (Zentrum für Sozialpolitik), University of Bremen

Since 01/2007
Project Lead for the Project "Der Rückzug des Staates aus unternehmerischen Tätigkeiten“ at the Sonderforschungsbereich 597 „Staatlichkeit im Wandel“, University of Bremen (until 12/2014, with S. Traub)

2008 - 2011
Director of the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bremen

Since 2006
Director of the department for History and Institutions of the Welfare State at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen

Since 2006
Professor (W3) for Comparative Government Activity Research and Comparatiy Social Policy at the Universitsy of Bremen

2006
Call (W3) from the University of Konstanz (rejected)

Since 01/2003
Project Lead for the Project Sozialpolitik in kleinen offenen Volkswirtschaften“ at the Sonderforschungsbereich 597 „Staatlichkeit im Wandel“, University of Bremen (until 12/2014, with S. Leibfried)

From 4/2002
Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, Department „Institutions and History of the Welfare State“ (Under Prof. Dr. Stephan Leibfried)

01/1998 - 09/2000
Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, Department „Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State“ (Under Prof. Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt)

10/2000 - 03/2006
Research Assistant

-1997
Collaboration in Research Projects at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna („Sozialpolitische Reformen in Österreichs Nachbarländern“), at the Institute for Technikfolgenabschätzung of the Austrian Academy of the Sciences („Technologie DELPHI Österreich“) and the Institute for Social Policy at the University of Göttingen (ESF-Project „Basic Income in Europe“)