Curriculum Vitae

Vienna, April 20, 2024

CURRICULUM VITAE

A / Life stations and Studies

1949: born in Lower Austria.
1963 – 1968: Attended Realgymnasium in Vienna (an Austrian secondary education school type with a focus on natural sciences) with the completion of the Austrian school-leaving certificate (Matura).
1968– 1969: Served in military service in the Austrian federal army.
1973 Graduation in business administration (Mag) from the University of World Trade in Vienna.

Subsequent academic degrees were obtained through part-time studies.

Completion of a doctoral degree in business administration with a focus on empirical methods and higher mathematics at the Vienna University of Economics in 1993.
1994 to 1998: Studied philosophy with an emphasis on philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. Academic degrees followed in 1997 (Mag) and 1998 (Dr).
2004 graduation in Social Behavioral Sciences (MA) at the University of Hagen/Germany with a special focus on industrial and organizational psychology. 2008, this course of study has been completed with a doctoral degree in the field of social psychology.
2007 to 2009: In order to transfer theoretical know-how of philosophical and social psychological concepts into the field of practice, I attended practice-oriented training for three years as a psycho-social counselor. This included the completion of an academic degree (MSc in Counseling).

B / Professional Practice

1973 to 1979: Product manager in marketing and sales department of consumer goods in international corporations in Austria (Unilever Austria, Braun Electric Austria) and Germany (headquarter of Braun Electric).
1979 to 1983: Published two books on healthy eating within the Natural Food Movement. Conducting seminars in Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Budapest and Bucharest.
1984 to 2006: Market researcher, IT project manager and business process consultant Siemens Austria).
2007 – 2015: Self-employed Psychological Consultant and Science Coach.
2015 – today: Focused on the profession as a science coach / consultant for qualitative, quantitative methods and mixed methods procedures.

C / Expertise

Completion of my own three dissertations and four master's theses
Extensive experience and professional know-how due to the supervision of diploma and doctoral students over more than two decades
Eleven years of occupational experience as a market researcher
Eleven years of occupational experience as an IT project manager for statistical and business reporting software
Implementation of numerous empirical social research and commercial research projects since 1984
Four decades of in dealing with university institutions and lecturers from the external (!) perspective of both myself und my clients/students.
External Examiner of Middlesex University London – defensio for doctoral studies: Starting with autumn 2023.

D / Publications

Journalistic in field of urban environmental traffic / 1990 – 1993: approximately 20 articles concerning ecofriendly traffic in biking journal.
Journalistic and pedagogical-scientifical / 1988 – 1992: approximately 25 articles in special interest journals.
Academic / 2008: Interdisziplinäres Forschen; Synthetisierende, theoretische und empirische Sichten auf Basis von Weltbild, Formalismen und sozialpsychologischen Ansätzen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Academic / 2008: Ich denke nicht, was in zehn Jahren sein wird. Ein Lebenskonzept begrenzter Freiheit. Protokoll einer psychologisch-philosophischen Beratung, Wien: Bachelor, Master Publishing; 2014: zweite Auflage mit Epilog.
Academic / 2009: Schul-, Berufs- und Qualifizierungsentscheidungen von Angehörigen der zweiten und dritten Generation vertriebener Donauschwaben. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung familienstrategischer und generationsübergreifender Aspekte. München: GRIN.
Philosophical / 2010: Warum glauben wir den Comics von Mao? Wie uns übliche Schablonen in die Irre führen. Psychologisch und praktisch-lebensphilosophisch orientierte Beiträge. (2. Aufl.) Books on Demand.
Philosophical and pedagogical-scientifica / 2010 until now: approximately 330 BLOG-contributions/public posts on my homepage reinhard-neumeier.at.

E / In dealing with clients I value

Emphasis on consistent research designs
Offering solid methodological support within a sound yet practicable approach which pays attention to both analytical and synthetical dimensions
Effective time management
Offering educational didactic support which means advising, motivating the processes of research, and eventually dissolving writer’s blockages.

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