Prof. Dr. Bernhard Gill

Field of activity

• Environmental Sociology
• Science and Technology Studies
• Economic Sociology
• Political Economy
• Social Science Education for Teacher ("Sozialkunde")

Academic curriculum vitae

since 2009

Head of the research group "social structures and environmental adaptation" (mainly funded with several grants by the German Research Ministry / BMBF)

2008

Vocation for extracurricular professorship

2001

Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Venia: "Sociology")

since 1996

Academic Counselor (tenured position) at the Department of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

1993-1996

Head of the research project "Risk control in research organizations" at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Epistemology and History of Science at the University of Erlangen

1992

Freelance scientific and non-scientific consulting activities in cooperation with different NGOs

1991

Assistant professor at the research group "Civil Rights" at the Free University of Berlin

1990

PhD from the Free University of Berlin

1984-1990

PhD-studies. Cooperation with several NGOs, especially with the Gene-Ethics Network in Berlin

1983

Master of Political Sciences from the Otto-Suhr-Institute, Free University of Berlin

1977

Abitur (entrance requirement for higher education)