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Chair for Political Sciences and Public Administration

Managing Director of the Rhine Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Consulting e.V. (RISP)

About

Curriculum vitae:

1977–1984
Studies of Administrative Science and Political Sciences at the University of Constance and the Graduate School of Rutgers University, N. J., USA

1985–1987
Research Associate in the special research field ‘Administration in Transformation’ at the University of Konstanz

1988–1990
Researcher at the Research Institute of Public Administration at the University for Administrative Science Speyer

1991–1998
Research Assistant and Associate at the Chair of Administrative Science, Institute for Political Science (‘Staatswissenschaften’) at the University of the Armed Forces Munich

11/1998–03/2009
Research Assistant (November 1998–March 2002) and afterwards until March 2009 Academic (Senior) Assistant at the Chair for Political Science at the Technical University of Munich

10/2007–09/2008
Deputizing the Chair for State and Governance at the University of Hagen

04/2009–02/2011
Professor of the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and Public Administration at the University of Siegen

02/2011–Present
Chair of Political Sciences and Public Administration at the University of Duisburg-Essen

01/2012–Present
Managing Director of the Rhine Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Consulting e.V. (RISP)

04/2014–09/2016
Managing Director of the Institute for Political Sciences