Vita

Thomas Immervoll

Main research: Policy analysis, politics in China, discourse analysis

Academic career        

since Feb 2007   Master studies of sinology, University of Vienna

2002-2009   Studies of political science, University of Vienna (academic degree Mag.phil. (Master of Philosophy)) 

2000-2006   Bachelor studies of sinology, University of Vienna (academic degree Bakk.phil. (Bachelor of Philosophy))

Jul-Aug 2006   International Summer Program of the University of Vienna, Strobl

Sep 2003-Jun 2004   Chinese language studies, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian, People’s Republic of China

Academic activies

since Mar 2013   Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology, University of Vienna

Feb-Dez 2014   Project member, UNiversity of Vienna, Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology

Mar 2013-June 2014   Student assistant, Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology, University of Vienna

since Feb 2013   Project member, Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology, University of Vienna

Okt 2012-Jan 2015   Tutor, Universität Wien, Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology, University of Vienna

Oct 2011-Feb 2012   Lecturer at the University of Göttingen

Aug 2010-Jun 2011   Project member, Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology, University of Vienna

since Jan 2010   Freelance scientist

Jul-Aug 2006   Tutor at the International Summer School of the University of Vienna

Research Projects

Jan-Dec 2013   Invisible hands? - Informal employment in the service of resource efficiency in urban China (Unsichtbare Hände? – Informelle Arbeit im Dienste der Ressourceneffizienz im städtischen China), Jubilee Fund of the Austrian Central Bank, Project Nr 15325.

Aug 2010-Jun 2011   Member of the research project "Re-Sourcing in China: Standards for Circular Economy - Comparing China and the EU", Jubilee Fund of the Austrian Central Bank, Project Nr 13987.

Non-academic activities (selection)

since 2014   assistant of the head of the department, Department Social Sciences, St. Pölten University of Applied Social Sciences

since 2012   editing staff, "Politix", Journal of the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna

since 2012   free-lance language trainer

since 2010   co-founder and editing staff of the magazine "Das Reispapier", 2011-2013 senior editor

2009-2013   website manager, IT supporter

2008-2011   voluntary language trainer and translator at the Verein Flüchtlingsprojekt Ute Bock