since 2012 |
Head of the Research Unit Democrativ Innovations |
since 2009 |
Professor for Political Sciences and Political Sociology focussing on the Federal Republic of Germany within the European Context, Goethe University Frankfurt |
Visiting Professor and Scolarships
2018 - 2019 | Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Project: The Participatory Future of Democracy |
January 2017 | Visiting Researcher at the WZB |
2011 - 2012 | Visiting Senior Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation |
2010 | Visiting Professor at the Vietnamese German University, Saigon (Vietnam) |
2008 | Visiting-Professor/Marie-Curie-Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence "Democracy: A Citizen Perspective" (D:CE), Abo-Akademi, Finland |
Doctorate and Habiltation
2007 | Habilitation, Phillips-University Marburg. Title of Thesis: |
1999 | Receiving Doctorate Degree (Dr. phil.), TU Berlin, Grade: "summa cum laude" |
Former Positions
2008 - 2009 | Professor for Political Sciences: "Politisches System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Vergleichende Analyse politischer Systeme", Technical University of Darmstadt |
2004 - 2008 | Senior Research Fellow at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Research Unit: Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization in Europe |
2004 - 2005 | Visiting Professor at the Westfälischen Wilhems-University Münster, Institute of Political Sciences |
2001 - 2003 | Senior Research and Teaching Fellow and Coordinator at Special Reserach Field 580 "Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen nach dem Systemumbruch. Diskontinuitäten, Traditionen und Strukturbildung", Project: "Lokale Eliten", Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Social Sciences |
2000 - 2001 | Senior Research and Teaching Fellow at TU Darmstadt, Institute of Political Sciences, and TU Berlin, Center for Technology and Society |
1999 | Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Project: Civil Society Participation for Solving Local Environmental Problems |
1994 - 1999 | Research and Teaching Fellow at TU Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences |
1992 - 1993 | Stipend of the Association for Promoting Critical Social Studies (Vereins zur Förderung gesellschaftskritischer Sozialwissenschaft e.V.) |
1989 - 1991 | Research Fellow at 'Zentralinstitut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung' at FU Berlin (Prof. Dr. Nils Diederich) |
Education
1983 - 1988 |
Student for Political Sciences at FU Berlin, Degree: Diplom-Politologin |
1982 |
Abitur at Röngten-Gymnasium, Würzburg |
Offers of professorship
2009 |
Goethe University Frankfurt (accepted) |
2008 |
TU Darmstadt, Chair for Political Science (accepted) |
2008 |
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Chair for Political Science and comparative Research of Political Culture (declined) |
Administration Office of Prof. Geißel
Melina Cali - Office Manager
Room 3.G 009
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