Walter Pohl - Curriculum Vitae#

• Born 1953 in Vienna
  
• 1084 Dr. Phil. (University of Vienna)
  
• 1989 Habilitation for Medieval History, University of Vienna
  
• 1985 – 1990 research assistant, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vienna
  
• 1990 - present researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• 1991 Visiting professor at the University of Ishevsk, Russia
  
• 1993 Visiting professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  
• 1995 Visiting professor at CEU Budapest, Hungary
  
• 1996 Visiting professor at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Netherlands
  
• 1998 - present Director of the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• 2000 corresponding fellow, 2004 fellow of the Austrian Academy
  
• 2001 Habilitation for Historische Hilfswissenschaften, University of Vienna
  
• 2002-08 Austrian delegate to the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
  
• 2004 awarded Wittgenstein Prize of the FWF
  
• 2006 Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna
  
• 2010-13 project leader, HERA project ‘Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past’
  
• 2010 awarded ERC Advanced Grant for the project ‘Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion in Europe, 400-1200 (SCIRE)’
  
• 2010 member, Akademierat of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• 2011 speaker, SFB ‘Visions of Community (VISCOM)’ funded by the FWF
  
• 2012 member, Fachkommission of the Excellence Initiative of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  
• 2012 member, panel SH6 of the ERC for Advanced Grants