Dr. Christian Hochmuth

Christian Hochmuth studied modern and contemporary history, political science and historical anthropology at the Universities of Freiburg i.Br., Durham and TU Berlin and graduated with a Master of Science in economic and social history from the University of Oxford. He then completed his doctorate in modern and contemporary history at the TU Dresden, where he also worked as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Centre 537 "Institutionality and Historicity". He then worked for several years as a consultant in a strategic communications consultancy. He received practical mediation training at the Centrale für Mediation (2011) and works part-time as a (conflict) consultant, mediator and moderator.

He has many years of experience and expertise in the field of science management; design and support of conflict management structures and general organisational development measures in public organisations, especially in educational institutions; moderation, mediation and conflict counselling; academic teaching (including in ViAPACS).

Christian Hochmuth supports and advises universities and academic institutions in Germany and Austria and teaches at the FH Kufstein and the Joint Legal Examination Office Berlin-Brandenburg, among others.

Research focus

• Education and science management
• Conflict management in higher education and science
• Organisational and strategic development in higher education and science
• (Conflict) moderation at universities and in public organisations