Peter Wagner#
| Membership Number: | 5053 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/Peter-Wagner-521 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Research Professor of Social Sciences, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies, and Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona
- 1983 - 1995 Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
- 1996 - 2006 Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick
- 1999 - 2006 Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute in Florence
- 2006 - 2010 Professor of Sciology, University of Trento
Fields of Scholarship
- Political sociology
- Social and political theory
- European studies
- Comparative-historical sociology
- Sociology of the sciences
Honours and Awards
- Professor of the ICREA-programme (the Catalonian excellence programme for recruiting top-level Professors)
- Advanced Grant. ERC
- Member of a number of evaluation panels, ERC
- Member of Evaluation Panel. European Commission Horizon 2020, MSCA, Vice-Chair of evaluation panel
- Member of the highest advisory commission of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) for the Excellence Strategy (2017-2019) but also similar panels in a number of other European countries including Italy and Finland
- Research Grant, HERA plus a very large number of other international and national research grants listed in the attached CV
- Member of Evaluation Panel. Leibniz-Preis, Auswahlausschuss
- Member of the editorial boards of a large number of scholarly journals, including the European Journal of Social Theory
- Editor-in-chief of Social Science Information (the journal of Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris)
- Selected as member of some of the most prestigious insitutes for advanced study, including Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and SCAS, Uppsala
