| A. | Personal Data |
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| | PD Dr. Thomas Köllen |
| | Bern and Cologne |
| | thomas@koellen.eu |
| Current position | Faculty member (Start date: 01.04.2017) |
| Employer | University of Bern, Department of Organization and Human Resource Management (IOP), Switzerland |
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| B. | Education |
| 2017 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation) at WU Vienna |
| 2005 – 2009 | Doctoral studies at Vienna University of Economics and Business. Date of Graduation (Dr.): 14.07.2009. Grade for thesis: excellent (1) |
| 1998 – 2004 | Studies of Business Administration. Vienna University for Economics and Business (Diploma), University of Turin/Italy (Erasmus Exchange) and Friedrich Schiller University of Jena/Germany (Pre-Diploma) |
| Languages | English, German, Italian |
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| C. | Previous positions and mobility |
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| 03/2011 – 03/2017 | Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations (Department of Management) at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria |
| 01/2016 – 06/2016 | Visiting Professor at Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada |
| 08/2012 – 09/2012 | Research Fellow at the Graduate School for Social Work, Universidad Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 01/2010 – 06/2011 | Self-employed Researcher and Diversity Advisor, Berlin and Vienna: Councelling and research for Völklinger Kreis (Gay Managers Association in Germany) and Vienna Chamber of Commerce |
| 09/2006 – 08/2009 | Research assistant (as stipendiary of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Vienna, Austria |
| 11/2007 – 04/2008 | Guest researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
| 03/2005 – 06/2006 | Research assistant at the Research Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) |
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| D. | Professional activities and achievements |
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| | Editorial work |
| 2020 - Present | Associate Editor of "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion" |
| 2016 | Editor of the Book: Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations - Global Perspectives on LGBT Workforce Diversity. Heidelberg/New York: Springer. 589p. 33 chapters. |
| 2016-2018 | Special issue Co-editor of "Moral perspectives of equality, diversity, and inclusion", a special issue of the journal "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion" (emerald), together with Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila and Regine Bendl |
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| | Expert and reviewer tasks |
| 2010 - Present | Academic Reviewer (Journals), e.g. : Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Employee Relations, Canadian Journal of Administrative Science, Journal of Managerial Science; Tourism Management; Time&Society; Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion; Journal of Homosexuality; International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations; International Journal of Organizational Diversity; Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services; Journal of Vocational Behavior; Gender, Work & Organization. |
| 2018 - Present | Member of the awarding committee for the Swiss LGBTI-Label |
| 2016 | Jury member for the "Gender/Diversity-Scholarship" from the Vienna Chamber of Commerce |
| 2008 - Present | Academic Reviewer (Conferences), Various |
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| | Thesis supervision |
| 2011 - Present | 48 bachelor theses |
| 21 master theses |
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| | Positions of trust and memberships |
| 2016 - Present | |
| 2016 -2019 | Divisional Officer of the Division "Gender & Diversity in Organizations" of the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC). In 2018/19: Division Chair. |
| 2013 - Present | Advisory Board Member, Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations Community, (Conference and Journal). |
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| | Experience of Leadership |
| 2014 | Project leader of the research project "Working climates for German employees in Vienna and Zürich" (funded by the Austrian Central Bank) |
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| | Joint efforts and cooperation |
| 2005-2009 | Research project together with Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank (my PhD thesis) |
| 2004-2014 | Several cooperations with local and global companies in several seminars |
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| | Participation in/organization of conferences, workshops, etc. |
| 2021 | Conference-Chair of the 13th & 14th EDI Conference, Bern | |
| 2016 | Co-Chair (Conference), track: "Philosophies of managing diversity, equality, and inclusion" of the conference "Philosophy of Management", Oxford (with Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila and Regine Bendl) |
| Co-Chair (Conference), track: "European perspectives on LGBTI workforce diversity" of the conference "Proud In Europe? LGBTI Emancipation in Comparative Perspective" organized by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Amsterdam (with Jukka Lehtonen) |
| 2014 - 2015 | Co-Chair (Conference), "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" sub-track of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), Valencia and Warsaw |
| 2014 | Chief Organizer of the 14th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, Vienna (about 300 participants) |
| | Workshop on "Employer branding and diversity management" for the 'German Association of Lesbians and Gays in Psychology' (VLSP), Göttingen/Germany |
| 2013 | Chair (Conference), track: "Nationalisms and the Workplace" of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) conference, Athens |
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| | Administrative assignments |
| 2011 - 2017 | Person responsible for the WU Vienna student exchange program with: |
| - Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, New-Delhi/India |
| - Humboldt-University Berlin/Germany |
| - Corvinus University of Budapest/Hungary |
| 2013 - 2017 | Member of the working group "Research Support/Paper Development" at the management department, WU Vienna |
| 2015 - 2017 | Member of the Department Conference (Department Management) at WU Vienna (not during my visiting Professorship in Canada) |
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| | Public appearances |
| 2020 | Workshop on "The Economic Value of Managing LGBTI Workforce Diversity" for Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) |
| 2020 | Keynote on "LGBTI Diversity Management" for RBI at the Vienna Diversity Days 2020 |
| 2018 | Talk on career-related LGBT research, (for employees/teachers of the Canton of Bern) in Bern/Switzerland |
| 2015 | Keynote at the LGBT-Symposium in Merseburg/Germany |
| 2014 | Keynote at the Gender-Symposium of ver.di ("United services union" in Germany) in Berlin/Germany |
| 2013 | Keynote at the LGBT Business Forum, Vienna/Austria |
| | Keynote at the 1. Educational Workshop on LGBTI of the Hirschfeld Foundation, Berlin/Germany |
| 2011 | Speaker at the LGBT recruiting fair (today: Stick and Stones, Berlin/Germany |
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| | External research funding |
| 2018 | Funding from the University of Bern (Projektpool) for the organization of the research workshop on "Diversity Management in Family Businesses" in Bern, 04.02.-06.02, Value: 4900 SFr |
| 2006-2009 | Doc-Team Scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Science (together with Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Helga Gartner, and Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger), Value: 260.000€ for 3 years for 3 persons |
| 2014 | Jubilee Fond of the City of Vienna (for WU Vienna) funding for the research project "Working climates for German employees in Vienna and Zürich" (funded by the Austrian Central Bank), Value: 18.500€ |
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| | Prizes and awards |
| 2016 | Research Contract (Research Scholarship for 6 months), WU Vienna |
| 2015 | Award of Teaching Excellence, WU Vienna |
| 2014 | Best Paper Nominee, European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Valencia/Spain |
| 2012 | Research Fellow at the University of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2012 | International Award for Excellence for new Research or Thinking in the Area of Diversity (Best Paper Award of the International Journal of Diversity, chosen out of 81 articles published in the 2011 issues) |
| 2010 | Austrian Gay Professionals (AGPRO) prize for my PhD thesis (Price of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce) |
| 2006 - 2009 | Doc-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 2006 | Austrian Gay Professionals (AGPRO) prize for the lecture „Homosexuality in Business” |
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| E. | Other relevant information |
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| | Media Contributions |
| 2018 | Interview on "national identities" for gmx and web.de |
| | Article on an ongoing research project (together with Eddy Ng) in The Globe and Mail (Canada ) and the Christian Science Monitor (USA) |
| 2017 | Article in Österreichs Wirtschaft 172(Spring): Schade niemandem; sondern hilf allen so gut du kannst, p 10-11. |
| | Wir haben einen Experten gefragt, warum wir Österreicher so gerne Deutsche hassen (Interview), in Vice |
| | Interview: Warum Österreicher Deutsche nicht mögen, in Augsburger Allgemeine |
| 2016 | In Österreich ist Deutschsein ein Defizit (Article)" in die Presse, Article on the Report "Working climate for German employees in Austria" |
| 2015 | Huge media response to my report on "Working climate for Germans in Switzerland". Almost every Swiss German-speaking newspaper wrote an article about it (including NZZ, tagesanzeiger, Blick, 20min), and several other European newspapers, such as FAZ, Spiegel, Welt (Germany) and Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland); |
| | Radiointerview auf SRF4: Viele Deutsche fühlen sich in der Schweiz benachteiligt ) [Many Germans in Switzerland feel at a disadvantage], includes mp3-file (Interviewer: Marc Allemann) |
| 2014 | Article in Handelsblatt: Fremdenfeindlichkeit in der Schweiz: Kein Grüezi für die Deutschen (from Holger Alich) |
| 2011 | Interview in Name it: Schwule in der Wirtschaft - Ein Wissenschaftler im Gespräch, p. 24-25, (Interviewer: Manuel Simbürger) |
| | Article in Wiener Zeitung: Das große Tabu am Arbeitsplatz (from Rosa Eder-Kornfeld) |
| | Radio-interview on ethnic marketing with OE1 |
| | PhD thesis of the week in die Presse: Offener Umgang mit Homosexualität (from Veronika Schmidt) |
| | Interview: Diversity Barometer, in der Zeitschrift "Männer" |
