Prof. Dr. Berndt Keller

Prof. Berndt Keller held, from 1987 to 2009, the chair of labour policies at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz

Prof. Dr. Berndt Keller
Prof. Dr. Berndt Keller

Curriculum Vitae

  • 15.11.1946 Born in Großbardau/County of Leipzig
  • 1953 – 1957 Attended Primary School in Bochum
  • 1957 – 1966 Attended Secondary and High School in Bochum
  • 1966 – 1967 Military Service
  • 1967 – 1971 Studied Social Science, Ruhr-University Bochum (Mainly Social Policy, Sociology, Methods)
  • 1971 Diploma (First Qualifying Examination)
  • 1971-1975 Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology , University of Essen
  • 1973 Received the Degree of Dr rer soc from the Ruhr-University Bochum (Second Qualifying Examination)
  • from 1975 Associate Professor, Institute of Empirical Social Research, University of Essen
  • 1975 – 1977 Scholarship and Research Work at the University of California , Berkeley, USA
  • 1979 – 1981 Research Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • 1981 Habilitation (Third Qualifying Examination)
  • 1984 – 1986 Professor p.t., University of Konstanz
  • from 1987 Full Professor of Political and Administrative Science (Mainly Labor and Social Policy), University of Konstanz
  • 1990 – 1991 Research Grant from the Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung
  • 1994 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Warwick, England
  • 2003 – 2004 Research Work at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • 2005 – 2006 Research Work at the Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (WSI), Düsseldorf, Germany