Tobias Straumann

Tobias Straumann

Tobias Straumann studied history, sociology and economic and social history in Zurich, Paris and Bielefeld. In 1995 he received his doctorate from Rudolf Braun at the University of Zurich with the thesis "The Creation in a Test Tube. A History of Basel Chemistry (1860-1920) ».

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Tobias Straumann studied history, sociology and economic and social history in Zurich, Paris and Bielefeld. In 1995 he received his doctorate from Rudolf Braun at the University of Zurich with the thesis "The Creation in a Test Tube. A History of Basel Chemistry (1860-1920) ». 1995-2000 he worked as a journalist in Zurich, Zug and New York. From 2005-2006 he was senior assistant at the Institut de l'histoire économique et sociale of the University of Lausanne. In 2007 he became a Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. His 2010 habilitation thesis deals with the exchange rate regime of small European states in the 20th century. Since 2009, Straumann has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Basel and, since spring 2014, a titular professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich.