Tel. [+39] 055 4685 273 / Int. 2273
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole - Italy
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Martin Kohli was born in 1942 in Solothurn (Switzerland), and studied at the Universities of Geneva, Cologne, and Bern, where he obtained his doctorate. After a few years at the Ministry of Education of the Canton of Zurich and as Assistant Professor at the University of Constance (completed by his "habilitation") he went to the Free University of Berlin where he has been Professor of Sociology since 1977 (now retired).
In 1984-85, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1989, Visiting Professor at Harvard University, in 1995-96, Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, and in 2000-01, Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (Delmenhorst/Bremen).
He is an elected member both of the Berlin-Brandenburg and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and from 1997-99 he was President of the European Sociological Association (ESA).
In Berlin, he directs the Research Group on Aging and the Life Course (Forschungsgruppe Altern und Lebenslauf, FALL), and participates in the International Max Planck Research School LIFE.
He has published extensively in the sociology of the life course, generations and aging, on family, labor markets and social policy, and more recently also on the emergence of a European society.
Prof. Kohli was appointed to the Chair in Sociology, and joined the Department in October 2004.
German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (fair)
Life course, generations, societal aging; intergenerational transfers and inheritance; European social structures, kinship and welfare states; collective identities