University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 004
69115 Heidelberg

Germany

Email:

kirchner@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 54 43 58

Fax:

+49 (0) 62 21 54 43 52

Projects

• HRA12 Refbase enhancement

Curriculum vitae

1999 – 2003: Studies of history, political science and public law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

2000 –  2003: Assistant at the Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftungslehrstuhl für Amerikanische Geschichte, held by Prof. Dr. Detlef Junker (computing, network and system administration, webdesign)

2002: Passed exam for „Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000“ (MCSA)

2003: Magister Artium (M.A.), master’s thesis about „Koalitionskrise und Misstrauensvotum 1972“

2003: Intern with the Department „Interne Systeme“ of cbs – Corporate Business Solutions SAP Unternehmensberatungs GmbH, Heidelberg

2004 –2005: Graduate assistant with the HCA – Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg (computing, network and system administration)

2005 –2007: Graduate assistant with the Historical Department of Heidelberg University, chair of Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinfurter (teaching, involved in editing and publishing the series „Heidelberger Historische Beiträge“ and Mittelalter-Forschungen“, Adobe InDesign)

2007 – 2008: Graduate assistant with the Historical Department of Heidelberg University, chair of Prof. Dr. Edgar Wolfrum (teaching, network and system administration, webdesing)

2008: IT consultant with the Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“ at Heidelberg University (Windows 2003 server, establishment of an ActiveDirectory infrastructure)

2008 – 2009: Graduate assistant (computing) of the Emmy-Noether/ERC-Gruppe „Rang und Ordnung/RANK. Ausbildung und Visualisierung politischer und sozialer Ordnung im spätmittelalterlichen Fürstentum im europäischen Vergleich“ (databases)

Since 2009: Employed at the Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“ at Heidelberg University (network and systems manager)

Doctoral thesis (in progress)

"Hochschulreform, Studentenbewegung und Demokratisierung in Italien in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren" (Academic reform, student activism and democratization in Italy in the 1960s and 70s)

Funding

Doctoral scholarship FAZIT-Stiftung (April 2007 – Apil 2009)

Doctoral scholarship Deutsches Historisches Institut, Rome (January – March 2008)

Doctoral scholarship Deutsches Historisches Institut, Rome (January – March 2009)

Memberships

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die neueste Geschichte Italiens

Courses taught

Accompanying tutorial to the undergraduate course „Die frühen Ottonen“ (Dr. Werner Bomm, winter term 2005/06)

Accompanying tutorial to the undergraduate course „Heinrich IV. und das Reich“ (Dr. Werner Bomm, summer term 2006)

Accompanying tutorial to the lecture „Krisenherde in der Welt 1945 – 2000“ (Prof. Dr. Edgar Wolfrum, summer term 2007)

Course „Epochenwende? Die Krisenzeit seit den 1970er Jahren als zeithistorische Zäsur“ (together with Prof. Dr. Edgar Wolfrum, summer term 2008)

Course „EDV für Historiker“ (summer term 2007 - summer term 2010)

Course „Datenbanken zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus“ (together with Dr. Kilian Schultes, winter term 2010/11)