Bernd Marin
Prof. Dr. Bernd Marin, born in Vienna in 1948, is Executive Director of the European Centre since 1988. From 1984 to 1988 he was
Professor of Comparative Political and Social Research at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where he was also
Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences (1986 - 1987).
After studies of social sciences at the University of Vienna and a post-graduate training at the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Vienna, he became Research Fellow and later Deputy Director of the Institute for Conflict Research in Vienna from 1975 to 1984. In
this period he also completed his Habilitation in Linz and carried-out post-doctoral research at Harvard University (1978/79), a visit
ing professorship (Warsaw 1981) and several visiting lectures across Europe.
Since 1972 he taught sociology, political science, government and socio-economics in various austrian universities (University of
Vienna, Economic University of Vienna, Universities in Linz and Innsbruck). Since 1981, Prof. Marin lectured in universities in Europe
and overseas, i.a. Harvard, M.I.T, Columbia, New York University (NYU), New School of Social Research, New York, City University of New York
(CUNY), Cornell, Berkeley, Los Angeles (UCLA), Montréal, Budapest, Moscow, Roskilde, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Kent, Bielefeld, Institut d'Études
Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris, Jerusalem, Tokyo and was visiting professor in Zurich, Warsaw, Florence, Vienna and Innsbruck.
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