Curriculum Vitae
Ulrike Zeigermann is Assistant Professor for Social Science Sustainability Studies at the University of Würzburg. Her research focuses on the challenges and opportunities arising from new interactions between civil society, science, law, business, media, politics and the environment in societal transformations towards sustainability. In addition to research on the governance of sustainability, she also devotes her research and teaching to questions of expertise and knowledge transfer processes in socio-ecological transformations.
In May 2017, Ulrike Zeigermann received her PhD from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster with a dissertation on development policy coherence, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020 under the title "Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs - Bureaucratic Influence and Knowledge Circulation in Global Cooperation". After a postdoctoral position at the Peace Academy of the University of Koblenz-Landau, she was a research associate at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on sustainable development at the University of Magdeburg from 2017 to 2022. During this time, Ulrike Zeigermann was also a visiting researcher at the University of Warsaw and Sciences Po Paris. Since 2014, Ulrike Zeigermann has also been an associate researcher at the Franco-German Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. From 2015 to 2017, she led the research group "State Action and Knowledge Circulation". Since 2019, she has led the research group "Environment, Energy, Climate". Ulrike Zeigermann studied "Human Rights" at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Political Science in a Franco-German double degree programme at Sciences Po Lille and the University of Münster.
Since 05/2022: Assistant Professor of Social Science Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology at Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg.
11/2017 - 05/2022: Senior Researcher at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on sustainable development at the Institute of Social Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg.
09/2021 - 02/2022: Visiting Scholar at the Sciences Po Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Paris.
01/2020: Visiting Scholar at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
09/2017- 11/2017: Researcher at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate of the University of Koblenz-Landau.
05/2017: PhD at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster with a thesis on: "The proliferation of Policy Coherence for Development -from a vague idea towards a global norm?, with a scholarship of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Centre Marc Bloch
10/2016 - 03/2018: Lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Studies of the Humboldt University Berlin.
05/2014 - present: Associate Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch - German-French Research Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Berlin.
09/2013 - 02/2014: Visiting Researcher at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
09/2011 - 11/2012: Master of Science in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
10/2007 - 09/2012: German-French double degree in political science with a focus on European Studies at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Institut d'Etudes Politiques Lille.
Seit 05/2022: Juniorprofessorin für Sozialwissenschaftliche Nachhaltigkeitspolitik am Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
11/2017 – 05/2022: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Nachhaltige Entwicklung am Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
09/2021 – 02/2022: Gastwissenschaftlerin am Sciences Po Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Paris
01/2020: Gastwissenschaftlerin an der Warsaw University of Life Sciences
09/2017- 11/2017: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Friedensakademie Rheinland-Pfalz der Universität Koblenz-Landau
05/2017: Promotion zum Dr. phil. an der Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster mit einer Arbeit über: “The proliferation of Policy Coherence for Development –from a vague idea towards a global norm?, gefördert mit Stipendium der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und des Centre Marc Bloch
10/2016 – 03/2018: Dozentin am Institut für Kulturwissenschaften der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
05/2014 – heute: Assoziierte Forscherin am Centre Marc Bloch - Deutsch-französisches Forschungszentrum für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in Berlin
09/2013 – 02/2014: Gastwissenschaftlerin bei der Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
09/2011 – 11/2012: Master of Science im Fach Human Rights an der London School of Economics and Political Science
10/2007 – 09/2012: Deutsch-französisches Doppeldiplomstudium der Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Europastudien an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster und dem Institut d’Etudes Politiques Lille
