Klaus Boehnke
Klaus Boehnke (born April 23, 1951, in Oldenburg, Germany) is a German psychologist and social scientist. He has been teaching and researching at Jacobs University Bremen since 2002. In 2017, he was appointed deputy director of the Center for Sociocultural Research at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He suspended this collaboration on February 24, 2022. Early life Boehnke studied English, Russian, and Psychology in Saarbrücken, Bochum, and Berlin. He completed his teacher training in 1975 in Berlin with a state examination in English and Russian. He completed his psychology studies in 1980 at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin – Technical University of Berlin) with an MA-equivalent diploma degree (thesis supervisor Professor Jürgen Bortz). In 1985, also at TU Berlin, he received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) in psychology (doctoral supervisor Professor Rainer K. Silbereisen). In 1992, the Free University of Berlin conferred the so-called habilitation degree on him and bestowed him with the so-called Venia Legendi ("Right to Read") for Psychology (habilitation mentor Professor Hans Merkens). Career Boehnke first worked as a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at TU Berlin, and then in positions roughly equivalent to an assistant, later associate professor at the Institute of