Thomas Bernauer

Political science, political economy, international environmental policy, international economic policy

Thomas Bernauer is a professor of political science at ETH Zurich. He and his research group are based at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS; www.cis.ethz.ch), a joint institution of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, as well as ETH Zurich’s Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP; www.istp.ethz.ch). Thomas Bernauer obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1992. In 1988-92 he was a researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, in 1992-94 a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, and in 1994-95 a senior lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 1995, he was appointed assistant professor at ETH Zurich, in 1999 associate professor, and in 2004 full professor. In 2004-2006 Thomas Bernauer was dean of ETH Zurich’s department of social sciences and humanities, and in 2005-2009 director of the Center for Comparative and International Studies. From 2004 to 2012 he was a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s research council. In 2011-2012 he was President of Division IV (national research programs, national centers of excellence) of the Science Foundation’s research council. Since 2015 he is the director of ETH’s Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, ISTP.

In his research and teaching Thomas Bernauer focuses on international environmental and economic issues. He is the author or co-author of ten books and more than 120 journal articles and book chapters. His publications have appeared with publishers such as Princeton University Press as well as in political science, economics, and interdisciplinary environmental journals, for example International Organization, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Peace Research, European Union Politics, Global Environmental Politics, Ecological Economics, World Development, Political Geography, Energy Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, and Water Resources Research. For more information, see: http://www.ib.ethz.ch/people/bernauer.html.