Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn

since 2004
Director of the research unit Global Governance at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at the Free University Berlin

2019-2023
Co-spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS)

2004−2009
Founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance

2008
Co-Founder and Board Member of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Free University Berlin, Hertie School of Governance and WZB Berlin Social Science Center

2002−2004
Director of the CRC 597 "Transformations of the State" at the University of Bremen

2001−2003
Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bremen

2001−2003
Co-founder and Board Member of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen

1997−2000
Director of the Centre for European Law and Policy, Bremen

since 1993
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Bremen

1993−1996
Director of the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS)

1991
Doctoral Thesis entitled "Spieltheorie, Funktionalismus und internationale Politik" submitted to the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tübingen ("summa cum laude")