Short CV
Uwe Hochmuth studied economics, sociology and philosophy in Marburg and Heidelberg. From 1984 to 1988 he was Scientific Director of the DFG's Collaborative Research Centre 3 (Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy) and from 1988 to 1992 of the Institute for Applied Economic Research Tübingen (IAW).
Following this, he was initially Head of the Major Projects Department of the City of Karlsruhe, then worked as City Treasurer of the City of Karlsruhe from 2000 to 2006.
Since 1984 he has also taught at the University of Heidelberg, London School of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, KIT - University of Karlsruhe, HS Pforzheim, Schiller International University (SIU).
He received his doctorate in 2009 from the University of Karlsruhe with a thesis on ‘Convention as a normal mode of action’.
From 2006 to 2013, he was Vice-Rector for Research at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HFG) and Professor of Cultural Economics. He then moved to the Mannheim School of Management (HdWM) as Professor of Finance and responsible for research.
He initiated numerous research projects on behalf of the DFG, the European Commission, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, various state ministries and scientific foundations. Among other things, he was involved in setting up the Socio-Economic Panel and the IAW Housing Monitor and headed specialised working groups at the German Association of Cities (e.g. ‘Introduction to Commercial Accounting’). His externally funded projects range from financial research projects (e.g. theory of optimal taxation, tax simulation; Federal Ministry of Finance, etc.) to multimedia archiving (DILPS/DUMP; DFG) and memory simulation and learning theory (‘gewiss kühn’; BmBF) to education and cultural economics.
Professor Hochmuth has been involved in the development and establishment of the degree programme in Cultural and Communication Studies at the Turkish-German University (TDU) in Istanbul since 2014. He was also involved in setting up the European Cultural Studies programme at the Salzburg Urstein Institute (SUI), a private international university in Salzburg, Austria. He is a partner in Proflog GmbH, which specialises in open data and municipal financial and budget consulting. His research focuses on microtheory, public goods theory, public finance, cultural economics and democracy theory (i.e. open data / e-government).
He has been a Research Fellow at the IAW since November 2024.
