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