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: Psychological Consultant and Science Coach.

• 2015 – today: Focused on the profession as a science coach / consultant for qualitative, quantitative methods and mixed methods procedures.

• 2023 – today: External Examiner an der Middlesex University, London

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 essays/public posts on my homepage reinhard-neumeier.at. 

• Tertiary education (University): Blog-activity starting 2018
  
  
• Generative Artificial Intelligence: Extensive blog-activity starting with sommer 2023

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.