U. Matzat
ICS/Department of Sociology
University of Groningen
Grote Rozenstr. 31
9712 TG Groningen
The Netherlands
email: U.Matzat@ppsw.rug.nl
Tel: +31 / (0)50 / 3636237 (office)
      +31 / (0)50 / 5773064 (private)
fax: +31 / (0)50/3636226

Date of Birth:

18 September 1966

Place of Birth:

Duisburg-Hamborn (Germany)

Nationality: 

German

1986

High School Graduation (in German Abitur) at the Käthe-Kollwitz -Gymnasium Duisburg

October 1986-May 1988

Civil Service at an Elderly Peoples' Home

1988-1989

Study of Mathematics (2 semesters) at the Gerhard-Mercator- University Duisburg

October 1989-March 1996

Study of the Social Sciences (Sociology) with Mathematics and Social Psychology as secondary subjects at the Gerhard-Mercator-University

August-December 1992

Study abroad: Participation at the Erasmus programme of the Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

December 1995

Diploma Thesis:  Social Context and Delinquent Behaviour. Empirical Tests of Sociological Theories of the Effects of Social Contexts with the Help of Multilevel-Models (in German) 
The Thesis won a Price for Excellent Performance (1996) of the Gerhard-Mercator- University.

March 1996

study final: Diploma-Graduation in Sociology

September 1996

start of the Ph.D. project  Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups at the Department of Sociology/ICS, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Nachsicht oder Verlassen in freiwilligen Partnerschaften (Indulgence or Exit in Voluntary Partnerships), Presentation at the Section Simulation and Modelbuilding of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie, Institute for Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland

Exit, Voice and Cooperation in Anonymous Markets, Presentation at the 89th Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Rational Choice Session, Los Angeles, USA

Academic Communication and Active Participation in Internet Discussion Groups: Different Models of the Collective Good Problem, paper presentation at the Conference Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists (IRISS 98), Bristol, UK

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: What Kinds of Returns for Whom?, Paper Presentation at the German Online Research Conference, GOR 98, Mannheim, Germany

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts? - First empirical results, Presentation at the meeting 'Globalisation and Knowledge Organisation' of the German Section of the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO 99), Hamburg, Germany

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: What can we expect?, presentation at the Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, Canada

Social Networks and communication in Internet Discussion Groups: Incentives for the Creation of new contacts or reputation effects?, presentation at the meeting of the Section 'modelbuilding and simulation' of the German Sociological Association, Duisburg, Germany

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts?, paper presentation at the Sunbelt conference, Vancouver, Canada

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Are they sources of Information or Means for extending one's network?, paper presentation of the 95th meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., USA

Academic Communication, Internet Discussion Groups and Disciplinary Differences, presentation at the Scientometrics Workshop and second Collnet meeting, Berlin, Germany

Social Incentives or Hope for Reciprocity as Stimuli for Information transfer in electronic groups? An empirical test of two theories with the help of academic Internet Discussion Groups, presentation at the section 'modelbuilding and simulation' at the 30th meeting of the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie), Cologne, Germany

23 November 2000

The Management of Active User Participation in Online-Communities, presentation at the symposium on online-communities, KPN research, Groningen, The Netherlands

18 May 2001

Social Network Effects as Stimuli for Active User Participation in Electronic Groups? An empirical test of different theories with the help of academic Internet Discussion Groups, presentation at the conference German Online Research (GOR 2001), 16 - 18 May 2001, Goettingen, Germany

Diploma Thesis Prize of the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg (Germany) for excellent performance

Practical Course at the Office for Statistics of Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany

Student-Assistant of Prof. Dr. Hummell at the Department of Sociology, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg

Participation at the Course 'Theory and Modelbuilding' of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), Universities of Groningen, Utrecht and Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Participation at the course 'Advanced Methods and Techniques of Empirical Research' of the ICS

Participation at the course 'Integration of Explanatory Models with Models of Analysis and Measurement' of the ICS

October - December 1999

Research Visit at the Center for Urban & Community Studies / Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada, 
host: Prof. Barry Wellman
 

Research project "The Management of Online-Communities" (together with Dr. H. de Vos) for KPN Research

Courses (in Dutch 'werkcolleges') in scale construction, applied statistics and data analysis

Assistance as Lecturer in the course Theory Construction, Model Building and Network Analysis

courses in scale construction and applied statistics

Course in social network theories at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf (Germany)

Course in microsociological theory at the Gerhard-Mercator-University of Duisburg (Germany)