Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
Vice President of the LMU and Chair Head of Chair 01 (on leave)
Biography
since 1998: Chair head "General Sociology and Social Theory" at the Institute of Sociology, LMU Munich
1997–1998: Acting chair at the Universities of Munich and Münster
1994–1997: Senior assistant and private lecturer at the University of Münster
1994: Habilitation in sociology
1992: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in sociology
1988–1994: Research assistant at the University of Münster
1986–1988: Scholarship holder at the University of Münster
1979–1985: Studied educational science, philosophy, and sociology in Münster and Hagen
1979: High school diploma in Gelsenkirchen
1960: Born in Tübingen; grew up in Munich, Landshut, Tehran, and Gelsenkirchen
since October 2025: Vice President of LMU Munich
since 2023: Chair of the LMU Senate and Deputy Chair of the LMU University Council
since 2009: Member of the LMU Senate
since 2009: Member of the LMU University Council
2014–2016: Director of the Department of Sociology, LMU
2005–2007: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, LMU
2004–2007: Managing Director of the Department of Sociology and Communication Studies, LMU
1999–2003: Managing Director of the Department of Sociology, LMU
Awards
2021: Schader Prize
2018: Prize for Outstanding Achievements in the field of Public Impact of Sociology from the German Sociological Association
2012: IDIZEM Dialogue Prize
Affiliations
since 2024: Member of the German Ethics Council
2022–2025: Member of the University Council of RWTH Aachen University
2020–2021: Fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
since 2020: Member of Leopoldina. National Academy of Sciences
since 2020: Member of the Senate of the German National Foundation
since 2020: Member and Deputy Chair of the Bavarian Ethics Council
since 2020: Member of the Advisory Board for the Gerda Henkel Foundation's funding priority “Transformation of Democracy?”
2020–2022: Member of the “Corona” expert council of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government
2020–2022: Member of the expert committee for combating the pandemic in long-term care in the Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care
since 2018: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
2018–2022: Member of the Advisory Board on Social Cohesion of the Minister President of Baden-Württemberg
2018–2024: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Foundation
2018–2019: Member of the Ethics Committee of the LMU Faculty of Medicine
since 2017: Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2016–2024: Member of the “Social Sciences” review board at the DFG
2016–2018: Member of the Advisory Board for Education and Discourse in the Culture Department of the Goethe-Institut
2014–2018: Member of the jury for the Geschwister Scholl Prize, City of Munich and Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association), Bavarian branch
2013–2016: Member of the jury for the German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation, Hamburg
since 2012: Member of the board of the Research Institute for Philosophy, Hanover
since 2012: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Nemetschek Foundation, Munich
2011–2018: Member of the Selection Committee for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG
2007–2014: Member of the Council of the German Sociological Association
since 2006: Member of the jury for the Bavarian Architecture Prize
since 2006: Member of the Munich Competence Center for Ethics
since 2004: Member of the Advisory Board for the Forum at the House of Architecture of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects
2002–2020: Member of the Board of Directors of the Human Sciences Center at LMU, since 2009 Deputy Executive Director
