Curriculum Vitae
| Name | Siegwart Michael Lindenberg |
| Date and Place of Birth | December 26, 1941 in Munich |
| Office Address: | Department of Sociology/ICS, University of Groningen Grote Rozenstraat 31 9712 TG Groningen The Netherlands Telephone: +31 (0) 50 3636204 (or +31 (0)50 3637398) Fax +31 (0)50 3636226 |
Education
| 1960-1962 | Study of Music (composition), mainly in Cologne. |
| 1962-1966 | Study of Sociology, Economic Sociology, Social Psychology, and Philosophy of Science at the Mannheim School of Economics. |
| 1966 | M.A. (Diplomsoziologe) in Sociology, Mannheim School of Economics. |
| 1966-1969 | PhD program in Sociology at Harvard University. |
| 1971 | PhD (Sociology), Harvard University. |
Professional Employment
| 1967-1969 | Graduate student assistant, Harvard University,for teaching undergraduate tutorials in statistics and computer programming. |
| 1969-1973 | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. |
| 1973-1980 | Associate Professor of Theoretical Sociology, Groningen University. |
| 1980-2006 | Professor of Sociology, Groningen University. |
| since 2007 | Honorary professor of Sociology, Groningen University. |
| 1986-present | Co-founder and co-director of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). The ICS if a research center and it offers a PhD program to selected graduate students, with full four year scholarships. |
Honorary memberships
| 1994-present | The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, installed as member in 1994. |
| 2005 | Knighted by the Queen for scientific achievement (order of Nederlandse Leeuw). |
Grants and Fellowships
| 1964-1968 | Fellow of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. |
| 1966-1967 | Harvard Graduate Society Prize Fellowship. |
| 1977-1978 | Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (N.I.A.S.) in Wassenaar. |
| 1983-1984 | Government grant for a research year at Harvard. |
| 1980-present | Research grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO): since 1980 18 research grants (for a total of $ 3.900.000), resulting in various publications and 35 completed dissertations. |
| 1989-1990 | Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (N.I.A.S.) in Wassenaar. |
| 1996 | Fellow Center for Advanced Study, Stanford (Palo ALto). |
| 2000 | Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (N.I.A.S.) in Wassenaar. |
| 2000-present | Member of the European Academy of Sociology. |
Professional Activities
| 1974-1988 | Chairman of the Section "General and Theoretical Sociology" of the Sociology Department in Groningen. |
| 1979-1983 | Co-founder and Co-chairman of the Theory Section of the German Sociological Association. |
| 1979-1982 | Dean of the Faculty of the Social and Cultural Sciences. |
| 1985-1990 | Chairman of the Section "Explanatory Sociology" of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). |
| 1985-present | Member Advisory Board Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE). |
| 1987-present | Co-editor of the Publication Series Scientia Nova of the Oldenbourg Verlag (a series which in the past has published Oscar Morgenstern, John von Neumann, Shannon and Weaver, Howard Raiffa, Ernest Nagel and many others; in 1987 we published a.o. Axelrod's "Evolution of Cooperation" in German, and in 1991 Coleman's "Foundations of Social Theory" in German). |
| 1986-2001 | Member of the Editorial Board of Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. |
| 1986-2009 | Founding member and Co-director of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). |
| 1988-present | Member of the Editorial Board of Rationality and Society. |
| 1988-present | Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of New Institutional Economics (Saarbrücken). |
| 1989-1990 | Coordinator of a thematic group on "organization studies" at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (N.I.A.S.). |
| 1990 | Guest Professor, Columbia University. |
| 1993 | Guest Professor, Universität München. |
| 1995-present | Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. |
| 1997 | Guest Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. |
| 2000-2005 | Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Management and Governance. |
| 2000-2009 | Leader of the research group on pro- and antisocial behavior of the TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) in which 11 year olds are followed at least until they are 25 years of age. |
| 2005 | Guest professor ETH Zurich |
| 2009 | Guest professor ETH Zurich |