Prof. Dr. phil. Ines Himmelsbach

Vice Rector for Research, Head of IAF, Head of the Program Applied Gerontology

Appointments per ILIAS

Vice-Rector for Research, KH Freiburg (2020)
Director of IAF - Institute für Applied Research (Institut für Angewandte Forschung), KH Freiburg
Department Head of Applied Gerontology, KH Freiburg (2019)
Acting Director of the IAF - Institute für Applied Research, Development and Con-tinuing Education (Institut für Angewandte Forschung, Entwicklung und Weiter-bildung
Since 3/2014 Professor for Social Gerontology at the KH Freiburg
Research Assistant in the field of interdisciplinary aging sciences (Director: Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald), Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2009-2014)
PHD in Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2008)
Research Assistant in the forum for ageing sciences und policies for the elderly at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2006-2009)
Research assistant at German Centre of Gerontology, Heidelberg (2003-2005)
“Magistra Artium” (German academic title) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Romance Philology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (2003)
“Magister” (German academic title) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Ro-mance Philology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main(2001-2003);
Research Assistant at the German Centre of Gerontology, Heidelberg (2000 – 2003)
“Magister” (German academic title) in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Ro-mance Philology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (1998-2001)

Gerontological foundations
Education in old age
Living in old age
Health in old age
Aging with loss of skills, especially visual impairment in old age
qualitative methods of social research, especially biographical-reconstructive methods