CV – Prof. Dr. Ursula Münch

Academic career

  • Since 2011: Director of the Academy for Political Education Tutzing

  • Since 1999: Professor of Political Science with special emphasis on domestic politics and comparative government at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg

  • 1996-1999: Assistant Professor at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, private lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University

  • 1996: Habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Venia for Political Science. Topic of habilitation thesis: Social policy and federalism. On the Dynamics of the Distribution of Tasks in the Social Federal State (1997, Leske + Budrich Publishers).

  • 1993: Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (USA)

  • 1990: Fulbright Programme "American Studies" at New York University (USA)

  • 1989: Doctorate in political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Dissertation topic: Family policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Measures, deficits, organisation of family-political state activity (1990, Lambertus Verlag).

  • 1986-1996: Research assistant at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, lecturer at the Hochschule für Politik in Munich.

  • 1980-1985: Studied political science, communication science, psychology and modern history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

 

Academic self-administration

  • 2009-2011: Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

  • 2007-2009: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

 

Functions & Memberships

  • since 2015: Member of the Board of Directors of the Munich Center for Internet Research (MCIR)

  • since 2015: Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities

  • since 2014: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Kleiner Konvent) of the Schader Foundation Darmstadt

  • since 2014: external member of the University Council of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

  • since 2014: Member of the Scientific Commission at the Institute of Contemporary History

  • since 2014: Member of the Parliamentary Law Commission of the Bavarian State Parliament

  • since 2013: Member of the Advisory Board of the Foundation of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Stuttgart

  • since 2013: Member of the supporting association Studienhaus Wiesneck, Institute for Political Education, Baden-Württemberg e.V. in Buchenbach near Freiburg

  • since 2011: Director of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing

  • since 2010: Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences in Munich

  • since 2008: Member of the Board of Trustees of the European Academy of Bavaria

  • since 2007: Member of various expert groups of the accreditation agency AQUIN

  • since 2004: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences Munich

  • 2000-2003: Member of the Spokesperson's Team of the Section Governmental System and Governance in the Federal Republic of Germany at the German Political Science Association (DVPW)

  • 1999-2002: Member of the Enquete Commission of the Bavarian State Parliament Reform of Federalism, Strengthening of the State Parliaments