Brief Curriculum Vitae
Klaus Armingeon was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1954. He is a citizen of the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland. In Tübingen (Germany) Armingeon studied Political Science, Educational Science, and Contemporary- and Eastern European History. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Eastern European History. As a graduate student, Armingeon worked as a research assistant for Prof. Gerhard Lehmbruch at the University of Konstanz where he wrote his doctoral thesis on comparative income policies (1980-1982). Before his completing his habilitation (supervised by Prof. Manfred Schmidt) in Heidelberg (1987-1993), Armingeon worked as a research assistant for Prof. Peter Flora in Mannheim (1983-1987). He has received offers for professorships from the universities of Magdeburg, Bern, and Cologne. He has been affiliated with the University of Bern since 1993. He was a guest professor at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) and at the Karl-Franzen University in Innsbruck. Klaus Armingeon was the first foreigner to be appointed as president of the Swiss Political Science Association (1999-2002). He was the editor of the Swiss Political Science Review between 2004 and 2006 and is a member of many editorial and scientific boards in Switzerland and abroad. He is a former member of the executive board of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), responsible for the ‘Research’ and ‘Europe’ (2006-2012). In 2010 he received the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Duke/UNC Chapel Hill. In 2013 he was offered the Fernadel Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute for Spring 2015 (declined) and a fellowship at the ‘Collegio Carlo Alberto’ at the University of Torino for Fall 2014 (accepted).
