Prof. Thomas Bernauer

Center for Comparative and International Studies,
ETH and University Zurich, Switzerland

Thomas Bernauer is a Professor of Political Science (International Relations) in ETH Zurich's Department of Social Sciences and Humanities (D-GESS).

He heads a group that forms part of the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) and the Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED). Currently he also serves as Director of the CIS and is a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation's Research Council.

Thomas Bernauer studied political science, history and international law at the University of Zurich, where he received an M.A. in 1988. From 1988 to 1992 he worked as a research associate at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. During that period he wrote a doctoral dissertation analyzing the negotiations on a global chemical weapons ban. In 1992 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich. After two years as postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University (1992-94) he served for one year as a senior lecturer in Political Science at the University of Zurich before joining ETH Zurich as an Assistant Professor of Political Science (International Relations) in 1995. He became Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2004.