Univ.Doz.Mag.Dr.MSc. Johannes Pollak
Curriculum Vitae
PRESENT POSITIONS
Senior Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for European Integration Research (EIF), Vienna, www.eif.oeaw.ac.at
Since 1996. University Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Institute for Political Science (Political Philosophy, European Integration)
Since 1998. University Lecturer at the University of Salzburg, Institute for Political Science (Political Philosophy, European Integration)
Since 2000. Lecturer at the Postgraduate Interfaculty Course “European Studies” at the University of Vienna (European Integration)
Since 2002. Lecturer at the Webster University Vienna (Political Philosophy, European Integration, Comparative Politics)
PAST POSITIONS
Nov.-April 1997-98. Research Collaborator at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Laxenburg.
July 2002. Lecturer at the European International Relations Summer School (Standing Group on International Relations of the ECPR).
Consultant for the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, March 1999.
Expert Evaluator for the 2nd Evaluation of Proposals for the Key Action "Improving the socio-economic knowledge base" for the European Commission, September 2000.
Expert Evaluator for the 3rd Evaluation of Proposals for the Key Action "Improving the socio-economic knowledge base" for the European Commission, February 2002.
Lecturer at the European Forum Alpbach 14 – 21 August 2003, Seminar on “The European Project towards a European federal Project?”
2003-2004 Emile Noël Fellowship at the New York University (declined in favour of the RSCAS Jean Monnet Fellowship).
Expert Evaluator for the programme “Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society” under the 6th Framework Programme, March 2004.
Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Florence, 2003-2004.
Expert Evaluator for the FP6-2004 Science and Society, June 2005.
Expert evaluator for the European Union Context for Young Scientists, 2007 and 2008.
Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, June 2007 – March 2008 and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
2009-2013 ERC Referee
EDUCATION
Habilitation (venia docendi) at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Juni 2006
Ph.D. in Political Science and Philosophy. June 1996. University of Vienna, Institute for Political Science. Doctoral Thesis: „Bedeutungsprobleme der politischen Identität der Europäischen Staatengemeinschaft“ (The meaning of political identity in the European Union). Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Heinrich Schneider.
MSc. in Political Theory. London School of Economics and Political Science 1996-97, Dept. of Government. Thesis: “History of Speech Act vs. History of Discourse vs. Conceptual History”. Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Janet Coleman.
Post-graduate studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna 1992-1994, Dept. of Political Science; Dissertation September 1994 Title: “Legitimationsprobleme der EU” (Problems of Legitimacy in the EU)
M.A. in Political Science. University of Vienna 1991, Institute for Political Science. Thesis: “Conceptual Problems of a European Identity”. Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Heinrich Schneider.
PROJECT EXPERIENCES
Project Coordinator: Shaping Representative Claims in EP Elections (Share) within the FP-6 research roject “Reconstitution Democracy in Europe” (Recon) coordinated by ARENA Oslo. http://www.reconproject.eu/
Project Coordinator: Die Debatte zur Zukunft Europas: Die Rolle der nationalen Parlamente in der europäischen Architektur. Konzepte und Akteure einer Debatte (The Debate about Europe’s Future: The role of national parliaments in the European institutional architecture). International Project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, EIF, March 2001 – October 2001
Project Coordinator: Constitutionalism and Democratic Representation in the European Union. International Project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, EIF, April 2001 – April 2003
Project Collaborator: Institutional Change and Democracy: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. Project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, EIF, January 2000 – January 2001
Project Collaborator: CONVEU-30. From the Convention to the IGC: Mapping Cross-National Views towards an EU-30. International Project at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, October 2002 – June 2003
Project Collaborator: The fabric of governance: the interinstitutional agreements in the European Union. Project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, EIF, 2004-2005.
Project Collaborator: European Agencies: Enhanced Efficiency or Compounded Administration?, Final Report December 2007
