Thomas Walli

Senior Scientist

Department of Political Science
University of Innsbruck
Universitätsstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck

e-mail: thomas.walli@uibk.ac.at
phone: +43 512 507-70102 | +43 676 8725 70102
fax: +43 512 507-70199

room: w 2.45
consultation hours: as arranged by e-mail

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Science and Technology Studies; Science Policy Studies; Science Communication
European Economic and Social Committee; European Parliament
Italian Politics; Italian Contemporary History
Political Philosophy

EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS

as of 2019 Senior Scientist, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
as of 2019 Assistant Editor, Austrian Journal of Political Science (OZP)
as of 2016 Research Associate, Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER)
as of 2014 ongoing training/summer schools: Science, Technological and Risk Communication; Science Policy Studies; science management; project administration
2018–2019 Research Assistant (science communication and science/project management), Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
2018 Research Assistant (especially EGTC "Euregio Tyrol - South Tyrol - Trentino", local elections in Austria), Department of Media, Society and Communication, University of Innsbruck
2014–2018 Assistant of the Research Coordinator, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Innsbruck
2016–2018 Research Assistant and Tutor in European Politics (multi-level parliamentarism, EU's trade policy), Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER)
2014–2016 Research Assistant and Tutor in International Relations (Nuclear Weapons and Digital Discursive Spaces and Emotionality and the Nuclear Order), Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
2015 Certificate of Third-Party Fund Management, University of Innsbruck
2011–2019 Studies: Political Science, History, and Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck and Università degli studi di Pavia

PUBLICATIONS

Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2022): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2022, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 143-146.
Walli, Thomas (2022): Interview zur Parlamentswahl in Italien 2022, in: Südtirol 1 / Radio Tirol, 26.09.2022.
Walli, Thomas (2022): Italia al voto! Italiens Obsession mit Wahlreformen und die Parlamentswahlen 2022, in: Powi Blog, 23.09.2022.
Walli, Thomas (2022): Obsession Wahlrecht, in: ff - Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin, Nr. 38, 38-39.
Walli, Thomas (2022): Droht Italien ein Faschismus 2.0?, in: salto.bz and Powi Blog, 18.09.2022.
Walli, Thomas (2022): Beratene Demokratie, in: subject_11: Skepsis. Augen auf und durch, Universität Innsbruck, 24.02.2022.
Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2021): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2021, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 139-142.
Walli, Thomas (2021): Politik und Wissenschaft: Eine schwierige Beziehung, in: derstandard.at, 12.03.2021 (also in Powi Blog, 15.03.2021).
Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2020): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2020, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 151-154.
Walli, Thomas (2020): Der Philosoph in der Revolte. Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre und der Algerienkrieg von 1954 bis 1962, in: Walli, Thomas/Hug, Theo/Maurer, Andreas (eds.) (2020): Crossing Borders - Passaggi di confine - Grenzgänge. Festschrift für Günther Pallaver, Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 167-181.
Walli, Thomas/Hug, Theo/Maurer, Andreas (eds.) (2020): Crossing Borders - Passaggi di confine - Grenzgänge. Festschrift für Günther Pallaver, Innsbruck: innsbruck university press.
Walli, Thomas (2020): Die Strategie der Vernetzung. Die interinstitutionellen und externen Beziehungen des Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses, Baden-Baden/Innsbruck: Nomos/innsbruck university press.
Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2019): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2019, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 151-154.
Walli, Thomas (2017): Die getrennte Erinnerung. Der Resistenza-Mythos in Italien von 1943 bis heute: Ursprünge – Wandel – Ausblick, in: historia.scribere 9, 9-43.
Walli, Thomas (2017): Status, Überprüfungsmaßstab und Vergleichsanalyse des Gemeinsamen Auslegungsinstruments und der einseitigen Protokollerklärungen zum Umfassenden Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen zwischen Kanada einerseits und der Europäischen Union und ihren Mitgliedstaaten andererseits. Gutachten und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Abgeordneten der SPÖ in der S&D-Fraktion des Europäischen Parlaments (Gutachten im Auftrag der SPÖ-Delegation im Europäischen Parlament), in: ICER Papers on European Governance 3 (3) (with Andreas Maurer, in collaboration with Kief Albers, Anna Santolin, Philipp Umek).
Walli, Thomas (2016): Stärkere Integration – mangelnde Legitimation? Der Einfluss des Europäischen Parlaments auf die WWU-Governance seit Beginn der Euro-Krise am Beispiel des Six-Packs und Fiskalpakts, in: ICER Papers on European Governance 2 (1).
Walli, Thomas (2016): „Wir kommen unter die Metzger.“ Die Umsetzung des nationalsozialistischen Euthanasieprogramms im Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg, in: historia.scribere 8, 253-286.

TEACHING

VU Science and Society: Introduction to the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Science Policy Studies and Science Communication (annual, interdisciplinary elective course for PhD students)
VU Italian Politics (annual, Bachelor's Programme Political Science)
PS European Integration - Introductory Level (each semester, Bachelor's Programme Political Science)
Excursion to the Mauthausen Memorial (all study programs, all faculties)
as of 2020: supervisor of bachelor theses on Italian Politics

THIRD MISSION

Podcast PolitikWissen, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
Editor of the Powi Blog, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
Science communication and third mission at the Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck: www.uibk.ac.at/politikwissenschaft/kommunikation/
Young Science-Ambassador for Political Science and Conemporary History (school workshops on Democracy, European Politics and Italian Politics)
Civic education courses for adults on European politics (VHS)

AWARDS AND PRIZES

Marianne-Barcal-award 2018 by the City of Innsbruck
Merit-based scholarship 2018/2019, University of Innsbruck
Merit-based scholarship 2017/2018, Autonomous Province Bolzano – South Tyrol
Merit-based scholarship 2016/2017, University of Innsbruck
Best-Paper-Award 2017 by historia.scribere 9
Runner-Up-Award 2016 by historia.scribere 8

OPEN DATA

European Economic and Social Committee 1952-2017 (2018): https://zenodo.org/record/5707614 | https://www.icer.at/research/data/ewsa/
The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union: Six-Pack and Fiscal Compact (2016): https://zenodo.org/record/5707670 | https://www.icer.at/research/data/six-pack-fiskalpakt/

MEMBERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

politika - South Tyrolean Political Science Association/Südtiroler Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft/Società di Scienze Politiche dell'Alto Adige/Südtiroler sozietà per scienza pulitica
Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER)
Research Center Social Theory, University of Innsbruck (affiliated member)
Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW)

OTHER

3rd Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2020 (virtual conference), University of Innsbruck, May 14th to 16th, 2020; member of the organizing team
EUSALP 2018. Eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz, University of Innsbruck, April 4th, 2018; member of the organizing team