C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

Personal Background

Date and Place of birth: 4 May, 1963 in Essen, Germany

Citizenship: German

Gender: Female

Family Status: Single

Education

1973 - 1982 Public schools in Essen

1982 Abitur (Diploma)

1982 - 1989 Major in political science, and minor in history and economics at the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg

1989 Degree in Social Sciences (Diplom) (with distinction)

October 1992: Doctor of politics and sociology (Dr. sc.pol.) (summa cum laude) (Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg)

January 2002: at the FernUniversität (); venia legendi in Political Science;

Professional History

1989–1992: Doctoral fellow in the interdisciplinary Post- Graduate Programme for Social Sciences on “Social Networks” of the Volkswagen Foundation at the .

1992 –1993 Post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

1993 Research fellow at the Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., USA

1993-2002 Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne; since 1999 Senior Researcher

June 1998- March 1999 Visiting Full Professorship (Lehrstuhlvertretung) at the Open University of Hagen, Chair for Political Science

October 2001- March 2002 Visiting Full Professorship (Lehrstuhlvertretung) at the University of Cologne, Chair for Comparative Politics.

October 2001 Robert-Bosch-Fellowship for Comparative Public Policy and Institutions awarded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington D.C. The Fellowship allows a six-months stay at the AICGS in Washington, D.C.

April 2002- October 2003 Visiting Professorship (Lehrstuhlvertretung) at the Open University of Hagen, Chair for Policy Analysis and Administration

2003-2008 Professor at the Open University of Hagen, Chair for Political Regulation and Governance since April 2008 Professor at the Free University , Chair for International Political Economy

Awards

1993 Otto-Hahn-Medal for Young Scientists, awarded by the Max Planck Society for the dissertation. 3,000 deutschmarks and a grant for a Visiting fellowship at a foreign research institution were awarded.

1999 Bennigsen-Foerder Prize granted by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The annual Prize provided a grant of 100,000 deutschmarks for a research project on "Democratic Policy-Making in a System of Multilevel Governance“

2004 Post-doc Research Prize 2004 for the book “Der Staat und die Globalisierung von Finanzmärkten. Regulative Politik in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA“ (habilitation thesis), granted by the German Political Science Association (DVPW). 1,000 Euro were awarded.

Professional Activities

1997-2006 Co-Chair of the Political Economy Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)

2002 Consultant of the Enquête Commission of the German Parliament (Deutscher ) “Globalization of the World Economy”

2003-2004 Assessor for the Volkswagen Foundation. External evaluation of the programme “Governing global structures” (with Renate Mayntz, Armin von Bogdandy and Philipp Genschel).

Since 2005 Assessor for the German Research Association (DFG)

2005 Member of the ECPR Standing Research Group on European Political Economy

Founding member of the ECPR Standing Research Group on Regulation

Since 2000 Reviewer for different journals (Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics, Review of International Political Economy, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie)

Since 2006 Member of the Editorial Board of „German Politics“

Since 2008 Member of the Research Council for „Social Sciences“, No. 111 of the German Research Association