since 03/2023

President of the Max Weber Foundation

since 2008

Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2003–2007

Professor for German History, Yale University, USA

1997–2003

Professor of History, University of Bielefeld

1992–1997

Professor of Modern History, University of Konstanz

1991–1992

Professor of Modern History, Freie Universität Berlin

1989

Habilitation in Modern History, University of Bielefeld

1982

PhD, University of Bielefeld

1977

First Degree, Humanities, University of Bielefeld

1971–1977

History and Social Sciences Studies, University of Münster, University of Bielefeld, London School of Economics

1971

A Levels

2020

Sigmund-Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa (Prize for Academic Prose), German Academy for Language and Literature

2020

Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize, Universitätsgesellschaft Münster

2018

Honorary doctorate, University of Tampere (Finland)

2016

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1st class

2013

Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, London

2009

Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(2020-2023: Member of the Council)

2008

Honorary Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

2004

Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
(2020-2023: Member of the Presidium)

2004 - 2005

Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

2003

Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris

2003

Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

2002

Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

2000 - 2001

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

1998

Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation

1997

Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1989 - 1990

Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

1989

Habilitation Scholarship, German Research Foundation

1979 - 1981

Doctoral Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

1972 - 1978

Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

2023 -

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Historisches Kolleg

2023 -

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum Transregionale Studien

2021 -

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation German-Israeli Future Forum

2018 -

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel

2016 -

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Körber Foundation

2015 - 2023

Member of the University Council Konstanz (December 2016 - June 2020: Chairperson)

2013 - 2018

Member of the Board of Governors of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)

2013 - 2016

Member of the Board of Trustees for ‘Bildung und Kultur’ (Education and Culture) in the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Bahn Foundation

2012 - 2017

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden

2010 - 2014

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin

2007 - 2012

Member of the Board of Governors of the Jacobs University Bremen

2007 - 2013

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

2007 - 2015

Member of the Board of Trustees of the German History Competition organised by the Körber Foundation

2000 - 2003

Member of the Board of Trustees of the German National Academic Foundation

2021 -

Member of the Advisory Board of the Research Initiative “ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty“ (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

2017 -

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies

2017 - 2019

Member of the Advisory Board of Deutschlandjahr (Year of Germany) USA 2018/2019 of the Federal Foreign Office, Goethe-Institut and BDI

2016 - 2022

Member of the Advisory Board Bachelor Programme Studium Individuale, Leuphana Lüneburg University

2012 - 2014

Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

2011 - 2019

Member of the Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC (since November 2016: Chairperson)

2011 - 2017

Member of the Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna

2009 - 2015

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2008 - 2022

Member of the Board of Advisors of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam

2008 - 2013

Member of the Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz

2008 - 2012

Member of the Advisory Board of the Dahlem Konferenzen at the Freie Universität Berlin

2003 -

Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

2000 - 2009

Member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam

1999 - 2002

Member of the Baden-Württemberg Federal State Research Council

1998 - 2001

Member of the Advisory Board, Goethe Institute

1997 - 2009

Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld

1997 - 2007

Member of the Advisory Board of the German History Competition organised by the Kurt-A.-Körber Foundation

2016 - 2017

Luxembourg National Research Fund expert committee PRIDE

2014 - 2017

Chairperson of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society

2012 - 2014

Deputy Chairperson of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society

2012 - 2017

European Research Council, Panel Member

2000 - 2006

Member of the Nominations Committee of the German Research Foundation for the Leibniz Programme

1999 - 2003

Mentor, German National Academic Foundation

1998 - 2000

Member of the German-American Academic Council Foundation

1996 - 2000

Panel Expert for Modern History at the German Research Foundation

2016 -

Member of the Council of The Society for the History of Emotions

2012 - 2020

Spokesperson and Principal Investigator of the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies

2009 - 2012

Member of the Selection committee of the American Academy in Berlin

2001 - 2003

Spokesperson of the Research Group "Politics as Communication in History", University of Bielefeld

1996 - 1998

Member of the Executive Committee of the German Historians' Association

1990 - 2022

Member of the working group for Modern Social History