Ulrike Zeigermann

is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the department for Political Science and Sustainable Development at the University of Magdeburg. She is also an associate fellow at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate and an associated researcher at the French-German Centre Marc Bloch, where she co-directs the interdisciplinary research group “Energy Transitions and Climate Governance”. 

Ulrike Zeigermann holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Münster University. In her thesis she analysed the international diffusion of the contested concept ‘Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development’. Her results were published in a book entitled "Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs. Bureaucratic Influence and Knowledge Circulation in Global Cooperation" (Palgrave Macmillan).

Research interests

Comparative Politics of Ecological Transitions, Knowledge Circulation and Contested Expertise in Sustainability Governance, Climate Politics

Research project conducted as part of this invitation to the CEE

A Comparative Analysis of Transnational Knowledge Networks in European Sustainability Governance

To know more

• ulrike.zeigermann@ovgu.de
• Link to Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg webpage
• Link to Centre Marc Bloch webpage