Biography

Ebbinghaus studied from 1981 until 1988 sociology at the University of Mannheim

University of Mannheim

The University of Mannheim is one of the younger German universities. It offers Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees.The University is mainly located in Mannheim’s palace the largest baroque palace in Germany. The whole city center of Mannheim is aligned symmetrically to the palace.About 800 scholars...

 and was in 1984/85 a Fulbright student at the New School for Social Research

The New School

The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...

. Following a year at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Européennes in Geneva, he was from 1989 until 1992 a doctoral student at the European University Institute

European University Institute

The European University Institute ' in Florence is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute established by European Union member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences, in a European perspective...

 (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he defended in 1993 his Ph.D.thesis on Labour Unity in Union Diversity: Trade Unions and Social Cleavages in Western Europe, 1890-1989. From 1992 until 1996 Ebbinghaus was teaching sociology at the University of Mannheim

University of Mannheim

The University of Mannheim is one of the younger German universities. It offers Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees.The University is mainly located in Mannheim’s palace the largest baroque palace in Germany. The whole city center of Mannheim is aligned symmetrically to the palace.About 800 scholars...

 and coordinator of an international research project on trade unions in Europe at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). From 1997 until 2004 he was Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies is a German social-science research institute within the Max Planck Society located in Cologne. Established in 1985, it was initially headed by sociologist Renate Mayntz , followed by political scientist Fritz W...

 (MPIfG) in Cologne, in 1999/2000 he was John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, in Fall 2001/02 Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 2003/2004 Interim Professor at the University of Jena, Germany. Ebbinghaus completed his habilitation thesis in sociology at the University of Cologne

University of Cologne

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

 in 2003.

Since October 2004 Ebbinghaus is Professor of Sociology (Chair of Macrosociology) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim

University of Mannheim

The University of Mannheim is one of the younger German universities. It offers Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees.The University is mainly located in Mannheim’s palace the largest baroque palace in Germany. The whole city center of Mannheim is aligned symmetrically to the palace.About 800 scholars...

. From November 2006 until October 2009 he was founding director of the Doctoral Center for the Social and Behavioral Studies of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS). From February 2008 until January 2011 he was Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

Publications

• ed. The Varieties of Pension Governance. Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199586028.do
• Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/9780199286119/toc.html?q=Ebbinghaus
• with Philip Manow, eds., Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA. London, UK: Routledge, 2001.
• with Jelle Visser: Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945. London, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2000.

External links

• http://lssoz3.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/english/startpage/index.html
• http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/homepage_e.html