Education
Marin studied social sciences at the University of Vienna and concluded a post-graduate training at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. During this period he also completed his habilitation at the University of Linz and carried out post-doctoral research at Harvard University.
Career
From 1975 to 1984 he served at the Institute for Conflict in Vienna - first as a Fellow and later on as a Deputy Director. From 1984 to 1988, Marin held the chair for Comparative Political and Social at the European University Institute in Florence. Marin also served as visiting professor at several other universities (Zurich, Warsaw, Florence, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Health Sciences at H A Barceló Foundation and Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
From 1988-2015, he was the Executive Director of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and, a think tank on economics and sociology (Vienna).
October 15th 2015, he got Director of Webster University Vienna, an global American University located all over the world. From 1979 to 1996 he edited the Journal für Sozialforschung.
Marin also contributes to civic debates in newspapers and magazines, radio and television He has published more than hundred publications in academic journals and collected volumes and has edited more than twenty books As a comparative social scientist, Marin is working on modern welfare societies, social security systems and their sustainability, on innovative employment initiatives, health, care and disability policies, as well as on pension reforms.
He empirically analyses knowledge production and economic policy-making, focuses on changes and innovations in the labour markets and gender roles.
In the field of social theory, Marin works on corporate, intermediary and societal governance, systems of self-regulation and co-operative change management, promoting the welfare-mix and societal activation as prerequesites of sustainable wealth, health, welfare and well-being.
Politics
Marin"s role in the Austrian political campus is quite unique - as became clear for example during the controversial debates on pension reform, when all political parties relyed on his expertise.