Peter Fisch - Short CV

Born 1957 in Coburg (Germany); married, two daughters

1976 Abitur (A grade)

1976 - 1982 Studies in (Macro-) Economics and Political Economy ("Volkswirtschaftslehre") at the Universities of Würzburg, Germany, and Caen, France

1982 - 1983 Mandatory Military Service

1983 - 1987 Research Assistant at the Economic Institute of the University of Würzburg

1987 - 1992 Employee at the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Transport in Munich

1988 PhD ( “Dr. rer.pol.”) in Political Sciences at the University of Würzburg

1992 - 1993 Official at the European Commission in Brussels, “Consumer Policy Service” (now DG SANCO)

1994 - 2013 Official at the European Commission in Brussels, Directorate-General Research and Innovation

2004 - 2006 Head of Unit „Research in Social Sciences and Humanities”

- Management of 250 Research Projects

- Organisation of Calls and Proposal Evaluations

2006 - 2013 Head of Unit „Evaluation and Monitoring of the Framework Programme“

- Ex-post Evaluation of FP6 and Interim Evaluation of FP7

- Numerous presentations on Research Evaluation

2014 -  Analytical work on European Research Policy (THINK Pieces),

Presentations and articles (ResearchEurope), 

Moderating evalutions and discussions

2016 - Member of the Parish Council of St. Augustin in Coburg