Georg Krücken - #

Obituary, University of Kassel

Curriculum Vitae#

Education:

• 2004 Professorial Thesis (Habilitation), University of Bielefeld
  
• 1996 Dr. rer. soc., University of Bielefeld
  
• 1989 Diplom in Sociology, University of Bielefeld (based on undergraduate and graduate studies of Philosophy, Political Sciences and Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Bologna)

• Higher Education Research
  
• Science Studies
  
• Organization Studies
  
• Neo-institutional Theory

• 2022 - present Spokesperson of the Executive Board of the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel
• 2021 - present Spokesperson of the DFG research group „Multipler Wettbewerb im Hochschulsystem“
• October 2020 - December 2020 Visiting Scholar, IRCRES-CNR, Rome
• Febr. - July 2016 Visiting Scholar, Sciences Po, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris
• 2011 Full Professor, University of Kassel
• 2011 - 2021 Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER-Kassel), University of Kassel
• 2017 - 2020 Project Director, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) after the Gold Rush
• 2017 - 2020 Project Director, Determinants of Social Inequalities and Consequences of Higher Education Dropout
• 2015 - 2018 Project Director, Management Consultancy in Business, Public Administration, Science and Higher Education
• 2013 - 2018 Project Director, Quality Assurance of Studying and Teaching via Processes of Accreditation and Evaluation
• 2013 - 2017 Project Director, Organizational Development through Internationalization
• 2013 - 2016 Project Director, University Graduates and the Labor Market
• Febr. - July 2011 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, School of Education
• 2009 - 2011Project Director, Conflicting Goals within Universities
• 2007 - 2010Project Director, The Professionalization of the German Higher Education System
• 2007 - 2009 Member, EU-Research Network MEHEM (Mapping Higher Education Models in Europe)
• 2006 - 2011Full Professor, German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer
• 2005 - 2008Member, PRIME-EU Network of Excellence, Research Project SUN (The Steering of Universities)
• 2005 Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris
• 2004 - 2006 Associate Professor, University of Bielefeld, Department of Sociology and Institute for Science and Technology Studies
• 2003 - 2006 Project Director, Knowledge Transfer from Universities to Industry in Germany and the United States
• 1999 - 2001 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Department of Sociology
• 1997 - 1999, 2001 - 2004 Assistant Professor, University of Bielefeld, Department of Sociology and Institute for Science and Technology Studies
• 1992 - 1997 Researcher, University of Bielefeld, Department of Sociology and Institute for Science and Technology Studies
• 1990 - 1991 Researcher, Centro di Studi sul Rischio, Lecce

• 2011 - present Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel
• 2006 - 2011 German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer
• 1992 - 2006 Department of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
• 1998 - 2006 Institute for Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna
• 1994 - 2004 Department of Biology, University of Bielefeld

• Academia Europaea
• Consortium of Higher Education Research
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
• European Group for Organizational Studies
• Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung

• Political and Funding Agencies
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
  • European Commission FP 7
  • National Science Foundation, USA
  • Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Germany
  • Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Thyssen Foundation, Germany
  • Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung), Austria
  • Germany Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (Büro für Technikfolgenabschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag)
  • Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Germany
• Scientific Journals
  • American Sociological Review
  • Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung
  • Die Hochschule
  • European Journal of Education
  • Higher Education
  • Hochschulmanagement
  • International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
  • International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
  • International Journal of Technology Management
  • Journal of the Knowledge Economy
  • Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
  • M@n@gement
  • Minerva
  • Public Administration
  • Research Policy
  • Scandinavian Journal of Management
  • Science and Public Policy
  • Science, Technology, and Human Values
  • Sociology of Education
  • Soziale Systeme
  • Soziale Welt
  • Zeitschrift für Soziologie

• 2018 - present Member of Editorial Advisory Board, „Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung“
• 2018 - present Editorial Board, „Das Hochschulwesen“
• 2016 - present Member, Board of Governors, Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER)
• 2016 - present Member, Research Committee of the University of Kassel
• 2014 - present Chairman, Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf)
• 2013 - present Editorial Board, „European Journal of Higher Education“
• 2012 - present Editorial Board, „Studies in Higher Education“
• 2012 - present Editorial Board, „Higher Education Policy“
• 2011 - present Director, International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel
• 2008 - 2009 Member, EU-CREST Working Group „Mutual Learning on Approaches to Improve the Excellence of Research in Universities“
• 2007 - 2015 Executive Board, Center for Science Management, Speyer
• 2006 - 2014 Scientific Advisory Board, HoF (Institute for Higher Education Research) Wittenberg
• 2004 - present Spokesperson, Research Network „New Institutionalism“
• 1999 - 2006 Spokesperson, Network of European Centres in Science and Technology Studies (NECSTS)
• 1992 - 2006 Chairman, Research and Teaching Unit „Science and Technology“, Department of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
• 2005 - 2018 Editorial Board, „Hochschulmanagement“
• 2008 - present Editor, Book Series „Public Organization & Management“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• 2005 - present Editorial Board, „Science, Technology, and Human Values“
• 2004 - 2006 Editorial Board, „International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations“