Brigitte Geißel

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geissel co-leads Work Package 3, Co-designing Inclusive Participation. Her research interests include democratic innovations, new forms of governance, and political actors such as new social movements, associations, civil society, parties, political elites, and citizens.

Brigitte has held fellowships, research, and teaching positions at several universities, including Harvard Kennedy School (USA), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), the Center of Excellence on Democracy at Åbo Akademi (Finland), and the Universities of Muenster, Berlin, and Illinois (USA), as well as at TU Darmstadt and the Vietnamese German University in Saigon (Vietnam).

She has received several awards, including 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.