Biographical data

Prof. Dr. rer. soc., born 1956, 2 children

Academic career

• Since 2010: Full-time Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Science of the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
• Since April 1998: Professor for Political Economics and Comparative Policy Analysis at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tuebingen
• Since 1989: Research assistant and university lecturer at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, at the chair of Comparative Government and applied Political Science; habilitation about welfare commisison in modern welfare states and social service from a historic-comparative perspective (published Opladen 1996)
• Since 1987: Studies in Political Science, Sociology and Administration at the University of Konstanz, Master Degree on "The development of the welfare-state program and practice of bourgeois parties taking the English Conservative Party and the German CDU for examples. Prelude to the German reunification" (1984), PhD on "The CDU. Organizational structures, politics and mechanisms in the federal state" (published Opladen 1990)

University

• Co-cordinator of the HELP initiatives-interdisciplinary gerontology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
• Member of the Senate Commission Center of Information, communication and media
• Dean of Studies (2004-2009)
• Chairman of the Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit, Technik, und Kultur (FATK)
• Chairman of the Europäische Zentrum für Föderalismusforschung (EZFF)
• Spokesman of the post-graduate program "International comparative research of education and educational policy in the welfare state"

 Areas of specialization

• Comparison of welfare states
• Economic, labor, educational policy analysis
• Parties and associations, organizational research

Activities and memberships 

• Member of the Rührup-Commission
• Member of the Bertelsmann Employment Council
• Editorial Board of the magazine "German policy studies"
• Coeditor of the magazine "Social progress"
• Coeditor of the magazine GWP (society, economy, politics)
• Member of the academic advisory board of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation HBS) and of different project advisory boards of the foundation
• Liaison lecturer of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation
• Member of the German association for Political Science (DVPW), section of political economy: working group party research, association research, German England research; Section of economic sociology; section of social policy (DSG)
• Member of the Otto-Brenner-Foundation working group about the future of the IG Metall