Brigitte Geißel

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geissel, Goethe University Frankfurt/M., professor of Political Science and Political Sociology, Head of Research Unit ‘Democratic Innovations’; fellowships, research and teaching positions at several universities, e.g. Harvard Kennedy School (USA), Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Center of Excellence on Democracy at Åbo Akademi (Finland), Universities of Muenster, Berlin, and Illinois (USA), TU Darmstadt as well as the Vietnamese German University, Saigon (Vietnam); research interests: democratic innovations, new forms of governance, political actors (new social movements, associations, civil society, parties, political elites, citizens).

She has received a number of awards, e.g. a Democracy Fellowship from Harvard University‘s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a Senior Fellowship from the Alfried Krupp Foundation and a Marie-Curie-Fellowship from the European Commission.