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 Vita
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Please note that some of the lists below are only extracts. A full CV (which
might need some updating) can be
accessed from `here </htdocs/ElffCV-public.html>`__ (`PDF </pdf/ElffCV-public.pdf>`__).

Academic positions
==================

- since 02/2015: Professor of Political Sociology, Department of Political and
  Social Sciences, `Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen <http://www.zu.de>`__ (`overview in
  English <http://www.zeppelin-university.com/university/index.php>`__)

  - since 01/2020: Fachbereichssprecher (head of department)
  - since 09/2019: Akademischer Programmleiter (head of programme), Sociology,
    Politics & and Economics programme
  - since 05/2019: Sprecher (head/representative), Research Cluster
    Computational Social Science
  - since 02/2016: Member of the Academic Senate

- 09/2012-01/2015: Akademischer Rat (tenured senior lecturer), University of
  Constance
- 09/2009-08/2012: DAAD-Fachlektor (lecturer, co-funded by the German
  Academic Exchange Service), Departent of Government, University of Essex
- 04/2004-08/2009: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (postdoc/lecturer/assistant professor,
  no tenure-track), Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
- 10/2000-03/2004: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (lecturer/teaching
  fellow/researcher), Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
- 01/1998-09/2000: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Mannheim Centre of European
  Social Research, University of Mannheim


Education
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- 12/2013: Habititation, University of Constance, Venia Legendi in Political
  Science
- 03/2004: Dr.rer.soc. (PhD in Social Sciences), University of Mannheim
- 03/1996: M.A. Political Science (major), Philosophy (minor), and History
  (minor), University of Hamburg

Service to the profession
=========================

- since 05/2019: Sprecher (co-head/representative), `Section on Political
  Sociology, DVPW
  <https://www.dvpw.de/gliederung/sektionen/politische-soziologie/>`__ (German
  Political Science Association)
- since 05/2018: Sprecher (co-head/representative), `AK "Wahlen und politische
  Einstellungen" (specialist group on political behaviour), DVPW
  <https://www.dvpw.de/gliederung/ak/wahlen-und-politische-einstellungen/>`__
  (German Political Science Association)
- 2017-2018: Member of the programme committee for the `DAGStat
  <https://www.dagstat2019.de/>`__ conference (19-22 March 2019, LMU Munich)
- 2007-2019: Member of the Präsidium (steering committee), `Deutsche Gesellschaft
  für Wahlforschung (DGfW) <http://www.dgfw.eu>`__
- since 05/2018: Member of the editorial board of Politics and Governance
- since 01/2016: Member of the `editorial board of Electoral Studies
  <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electoral-studies/editorial-board/>`__
- `Reviewer for many academic journals <https://publons.com/a/1447331/>`__,
  including the *American Political Science Review* (4 times since 2014), the
  *British Journal of Political Science* (10 times since 2008), *Electoral
  Studies* (10 times since 2008), the *European Journal of Political Research*
  (7 times since 2009), *Party Politcs* (7 times since 2008), *West European
  Politics* (7 times since 2012)

Additional teaching appointments
================================

- since 2006: Instructor, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Collection
  and Analysis (Various courses on programming, data analysis, and graphics in *R*)
- since 2005: Instructor of (usually one-time) courses on programming, data
  analysis, and graphics in *R* at University of Zurich (2020), University of
  Innsbruck (2020), University of Mannheim (2008-12),
  University of Trier (2008), University of Berne (2006)
- 2009-2017: course "Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists",
  GESIS-Leibniz-Institut for the Social Sciences

.. |R| replace:: *R*
.. _R: http://www.r-project.org                           

.. |editorial board of Electoral Studies| replace:: editorial board of *Electoral Studies*
.. _`editorial board of Electoral Studies`: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electoral-studies/editorial-board/

.. _DGfW: http://www.dgfw.eu
.. |DGfW| replace:: *Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung* (DGfW - German Association for Electoral Research)

.. _GLES: http://www.gles.eu
.. |GLES| replace:: German Longitudinal ElectionStudy (GLES)

.. _AKWahlen: http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/dvpw-wahlen/
.. |AKWahlen| replace:: *AK Wahlen und politische Einstellungen*

.. _DVPW: http://www.dvpw.de
.. |DVPW| replace:: *Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft* - DVPW