As of January 1st, Lisbeth Zimmermann will hold the Chair of International Relations at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen (ZU).
In 2008 Lisbeth Zimmermann started as a PhD student at PRIF in the project “Transnational Justice and Democracy”. She received her doctorate from TU Darmstadt with her research on “Global Norms with a Local Face? The Interaction of Rule of Law Promotion and Norm Translation in Guatemala”, for which she was awarded by the German Latin America Research Working Group.
As a guest researcher Zimmermann visited the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. as well as the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute in Florence. Furthermore, she was involved as spokesperson of the German Political Science Association’s junior group in the section “International Relations” and successfully participated in “Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Woman in Science”, a scholarship program from the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Since 2015 Lisbeth Zimmermann has been head of the DFG-funded research project “Norm Disputes: Contestation and Norm Robustness” at PRIF.
Her research focusses on current challenges of the multilateral world order, international organizations, norms in international relations, democracy and rule-of-law promotion as well as peacebuilding.