Bernhard Nauck

born 08/1945 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany

Academic Training

1968 - 1972

Educational Sciences at the University of Education Rhineland at Cologne

1970 - 1974

Sociology at University of Cologne

Academic Exams

1972

Diploma in Educational Sciences (Dipl.-Paed.) at the University of Education Rhineland

1972

First State-Examination for Teaching at Elementary and Secondary Schools at the University of Education Rhineland

1977

Promotion (Dr. paed.) at the University of Education Rhineland

1983

Habilitation and Privatdozent in „Sociology“ at the University of Bonn

1987

Second Habilitation (Dr. phil.habil.) and Privatdozent at the University of Augsburg

Professional Activities

1972 – 1985

Research and Teaching Assistant and Assistant Professor at University of Education Rhineland, University of Bonn and Oldenburg

1985 – 1986

Deputy Professor for „Sociology and Research Methods“ at the University of Wuppertal

1986 – 1989

Founding Director of the Department „Family Research“ at the State Institute for Early Education and Family Research in Munich

1988 – 1989

Deputy Professor „Sociology“ at the University of Cologne

1988 – 1991

Director oft he Working Group of Research on Developing Countries at the University of Cologne

1990 – 1992

Professor for Sociology at the University of Education Weingarten

1992 - 2012

Founding Director of the Department of Sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology and Full Professor for „Sociology“

2012 - 2020

Research Director at the Department of Sociology of Chemnitz University of Technology

2016 - 2025

Adjunct Professor at the Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Education at the University of Hamburg

Since 2020

Affiliate to the Department of Sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology

Visiting Professor:

Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna, Department for Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Delaware

Fellowships:

Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany; Department of Sociology at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, United States; California Center for Population Research at the University of California at Los Angeles, United States; Center for Population and Women’s Studies at the Taiwan National University; Center for Social Research at the Peking University, China

Recent Research Projects (PI or Co-PI)

2004 - 2018

German Research Foundation: Coordinator of the Priority Program SP1611 “Releationship and Family Development” and of the Long-term Program, “Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics. (pairfam)”

2009 - 2014

NORFACE/German Research Foundation: 2000 Families. Migration Histories of Turks in Europe.

2011 – 2015

Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Social Background and Educational Attainment

2014 – 2020

German Research Foundation: Life Course and Family Dynamics in a Comparative Perspective

2015 – 2019

Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Non-monetary gains from education for migrants and non-migrants

2019 – 2021

Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Diversity and Change in the Education of Migrant Families

Service in Scientific Associations and Organizations

1990 – 1996

President of the section „Family- and Youth-Sociology“ of the German Sociological Association

1992 – 1996

Member of the commission for the social and political change in the New Member States of Germany (KSPW)

1996 - 2000

Member of the commission for the 6th report oft he Federal Government on the State of Families in the Federal Republic of Germany

1997 – 2001

Scientiffic board of the Institute for Population Research and Social Policy of the University of Bielefeld, from 1998 as Deputy President

2000 – 2008

Elected member of the reviewer committee „Empirical Social Research“ of the Germean Research Foundation

2001 - 2004

President of the section “Migration and ethnic minorities” of the German Sociological Association

2001 - 2004

Board member oft he German Demographic Society

2002 – 2005

Member oft he scientific board of the Minerva Youth Institute of the University of Haifa, Israel

2002 - 2006

President of the Committee on Family Research (RC06) of the International Sociological Association

2004 – 2014

Member of the steering committee of the European Graduate School for Social Sciences, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

2006 – 2009

Member of the scientific board of the State Institute for Early Education, Munich

2007 - 2013

President of the board of trustees of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS)

2008 – 2010

Vice-president of the German-Japanese Society for the Social Sciences

2013 – 2023

Member of the board of trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research

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