Michael Zürn
Michael Zürn is a German political scientist. He has been Director of the Global Governance research department at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin since 2004.
Biography
Zürn received his master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Denver in 1984. In 1987, he completed his first state examination in Political Science and German Studies at the University of Tübingen. In the same year, he participated in the Essex Summer School in Social Science, Data Analysis, and Collection. He completed his doctorate at the University of Tübingen in 1991, focusing on game theory, functionalism and international politics.Zürn is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2007, a board member thereof since 2013, and a member of Academia Europaea since 2014.
In 2021, Zürn was awarded the Berliner Wissenschaftspreis from the then Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller. He was also a fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles in the same year.