Philipp Antony(Researcher) has studied „Frankreichstudien“ (interdisciplinary studies on contemporary France) at Freie Universität Berlin and the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon focusing on French literature, economics, law and political science. After graduating he worked for the First Vice President of the Freie Universität Berlin and was involved in appointment negotiations, the structural planning between the universities in Berlin, and the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments. Philipp Antony then became managing director of the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) which provides an overarching, interdisciplinary research framework for the humanities. There he developed new programs and activities which would form the basis for close cooperation with non-university research and cultural institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg area. In addition, he helped to establish and to extend collaboration with Humanities Centers in the United States and in Europe in order to substantiate the Center’s international orientation and to generate impulses for research in the humanities in Berlin. From 2009 on Philipp Antony worked for the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) in the department for Higher Education. He was concerned with questions of the development of universities and other Higher Education institutions focusing on such topics as career paths of young academics and researchers, international mobility, staff structure, quality of teaching and qualification frameworks. Philipp Antony has been a member of the iFQ since April 2011.
Research interests: Science Policy and Management, Higher education research, Humanities, young academics and researchers, career paths, international mobility.
