1. Daniel Diermeier was born on July 16,1965 and is a political scientist and university administrator.
13 Facts About Daniel Diermeier
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Daniel Diermeier is serving as the ninth chancellor of Vanderbilt University.
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Previously, Diermeier was the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he served as provost.
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Daniel Diermeier won multiple teaching awards including Professor of the Year Award in 2010 and Alumni Professor of the Year Award in 2013.
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From 2014 to 2016, Daniel Diermeier served as Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy as well as the Emmet Dedmon Professor at the Harris School and The College at The University of Chicago.
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On December 4,2019, Daniel Diermeier was announced as the ninth Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, beginning July 1,2020, and was officially invested April 9,2022.
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Daniel Diermeier is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a research fellow at the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research.
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In 2023, Daniel Diermeier was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Awards.
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Daniel Diermeier has published four books and more than 100 research articles in academic journals, mostly in the fields of political science, economics and management, but in other areas ranging from linguistics, sociology, and psychology to computer science, operations research, and applied mathematics.
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Daniel Diermeier has contributed to the theory of legislative institutions, including the study of committees in the US Congress, governing coalitions in multi-party democracies and the formation and stability of coalition governments.
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Daniel Diermeier has served as a board member for the University of Chicago Medical Center, Argonne National Laboratory, the Civic Consulting Alliance, CityBase, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the National Opinion Research Center, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the management board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Daniel Diermeier was born and grew up in West Berlin and was living there during the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Daniel Diermeier was the first in his family to go to college.