The Group

The European Politics Research Group is headed by Prof. Frank Schimmelfennig and currently consists of the post-doctoral researchers Marius Ghincea, Sven Hegewald, Alessia Invernizzi, Levan Kakhishvili, Jana Lipps, Giorgio Malet, Mohamed Nasr and Aydin Yildirim; the PhD students Buket Demirci and Pit Rieger; and office managers Jessica Langer and Alana Henry.

The group studies European politics and integration. Past and current research projects have been concerned with European boundary formation, EU enlargement and membership discourses, the constitutionalization and democratization of the EU, EU democracy and rule-of-law promotion, compliance with EU rules, differentiated integration in Europe, and international parliamentary institutions.