Chris Armbruster
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Chris Armbruster was born in the American sector of Berlin. He studied at Bielefeld, Germany (1994, Diplom-Soziologe) and Lancaster, UK (2002, PhD Sociology, funded by the ESRC). In the process of researching the history of the Soviet empire and of state socialism he spent time at UJ Kraków, ELTE Budapest, Uniwersytet Wrocławski and Novosibirsk State University (NGU). He is an alumnus of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Open Society Institute (HESP-Civic Education Project).
His working papers may be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=434782.
Chris has been a Jean Monnet Fellow of the European Forum (2004-05) «The Role of Universities in Innovation Systems in the 21st century» at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute: http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/
He was also Fellow of the Fondazione Antonio Ruberti (2005-06) (as awarded by EIROforum - European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN); European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA); European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); European Space Agency (ESA); European Southern Observatory (ESO); European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL).
Chris Armbruster is the Executive Director of the Research Network 1989 - http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/
The Research Network 1989 is an association of internationally mobile EastWest scholars of the post-1989 generation that collaborate in trans-national and interdisciplinary working groups that typically pursue a comparative agenda. We integrate eastern and western Europe, reach out into Eurasia and keep bridges across the Atlantic. The Research Network 1989 has the following aims:
1. To investigate the global, historical and contemporary changes associated with the year 1989, particularly in a trans-national and comparative perspective.
2. To provide a meeting ground for the post-1989 generation of EastWest scholars who typically have received scholarships and prizes to 'go East', 'go West' and 'go around the world.
3. To intellectually prepare the coming 20th anniversary in 2009.
Chris Armbruster spent several years investigating the European and global knowledge society in the following dimensions
- Higher Education finance
- Entrepreneurial universities
- The rise of the post-doc in Europe
- Innovations in scholarly communication and publishing
- Open Access and non-exclusive copyright licensing
http://ssrn.com/author=434782
Currently he is pursuing a new project on the technological and commercial viability of overlay services on the basis of open access to research articles and data (in collaboration with the Max Planck Digital Library, Director: Laurent Romary - http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/)
