Andreas Diekmann

Andreas Diekmann, born 1951 in Lübeck, Germany. Studies of Sociology and Psychology at the Universities of Hamburg and Vienna. Doctoral Degree at the University of Hamburg 1979, Habilitation at the University of Munich 1987. Scientific Director at ZUMA, Mannheim, 1987-89. Professor for Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Mannheim, 1989-90. Professor for Empirical Social Research and Social Statistics at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland, 1990-2003. Professor of Sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zurich, 2003 - 2016. Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, 2017 - 2018. Member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. Seniorprofessor Universities of Leipzig and Konstanz. Currently Co-Director of the German Longitudinal Environmental Panel (GLEN). Areas of research: Experimental game theory, research methods and statistics, environmental sociology and population sociology.