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21 unusual facts about Bielefeld University


Alexander Krämer

He is head of a postgraduate university course (DrPH), at Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University (since 2007).

Alexander Krämer (born 1952) is professor of public health at Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University.

Andrew Moravcsik

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany.

Bielefeld University

It is among the first of the German universities to switch some faculties (e.g. biology) to Bachelor/Master-degrees as part of the Bologna process.

It works with commercial system suppliers to meet the needs of academic libraries—collaborations that have resulted in developments such as BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), by which metadata is collected from scientific repository servers and indexed, along with data from selected web sites and data collections, using the Solr framework.

In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2010-2011 Bielefeld is placed among the top 50 engineering and technology universities.

Douglas Massey

He is Board Member of the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence) at Bielefeld University and Editor of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence

Eric van Damme

In between he was Visiting Professor at European Universities in Bielefeld, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Lisbon; and in the USA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Frank Neuner

He is professor of Clinical Psychology at Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University.

Hans Markowitsch

For many years, he was co-director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, ZiF)) at Bielefeld University and has cooperated with neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists at the national and international level.

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Since 1998 he is Professor of Social History at Faculty of History, Theology, and Philosophy at the Bielefeld University.

Imre Csiszár

He has held Visiting Professorships at various universities including Bielefeld University, Germany (1981), University of Maryland, College Park (several times, last in 1992), Stanford University (1982), University of Virginia (1985–86), etc.

Jonathan Pool

Pool worked at the universities of Chicago, New York (Stony Brook), Washington (Seattle), Stanford as well as in Mannheim, Paderborn, and Bielefeld in Germany.

Jost Reinecke

He is professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research at Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.

Leonid Hurwicz

Hurwicz received six honorary doctorates, from Northwestern University (1980), the University of Chicago (1993), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1989), Keio University (1993), Warsaw School of Economics (1994) and Universität Bielefeld (2004).

Mark Stemmler

He was Professor of Psychological Methodology and Quality Assurance at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University from 2007 till 2011.

Nils Brunsson

In 2007 Brunsson held the Niklas Luhmann Gastprofessur at Bielefeld University.

Ralf Kölbel

He is professor of criminology, criminal law and criminal proceedings law at Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University.

Sabine Andresen

She is professor of Educational Studies at Faculty of Education Science, Bielefeld University and vice rector for international affairs and corporate communication at Bielefeld University.

Veronique Zanetti

She is professor of Political Philosophy at Faculty of History, Philosophy, and Theology, Bielefeld University.

Wilhelm Heitmeyer

Wilhelm Heitmeyer (born 28 June 1945, Nettelstedt, Lübbecke) is a German academic, sociologist, administrator and Professor of Socialisation at Bielefeld University in Germany.