Prof. Dr. Timm Beichelt

Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences

Professorship Holder

Programme Director
Master in European Studies (MES)

During the 2026/27 winter semester, Prof. Dr Timm Beichelt is on research leave.

Weekly on Mondays, 10–11 am, online, prior registration required.

Meeting ID: 671 7523 1200
Passcode: 085218

Further you will find here a selection of publications by the Chair.

Academic career

since 2024: Head of the Jean Monnet Policy Network ‘ValEUs’
2022–2026: Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
2017–2022: Director of the Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)
since 2009: Professor of European Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
since 2003: Head of the ‘Master in European Studies’ (MES) degree programme
2003: Junior Professor of European Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
2000: Doctorate at the University of Heidelberg on the topic ‘Democratic Consolidation in Post-Socialist Europe’ (summa cum laude); Dissertation Prize of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)
1996–2003: Research and teaching activities at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin (Humboldt University) and Frankfurt (Oder)
1990–1996: Studied political science, economics and Slavic studies in Heidelberg and Paris

Other activities:

since 2019: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung
since 2014: Member of the Advisory Board of the Genshagen Foundation
2012–2019: Member of the Executive Board of the German Society for Eastern European Studies (DGO); since 2018 co-spokesperson for the specialist group ‘Political and Social Sciences’
2006–2009: Co-spokesperson for the working group on ‘Comparative Studies of Eastern European Societies’ of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)
1993–1999: Election observer for the Federal Foreign Office on behalf of the OSCE at parliamentary and presidential elections in the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1996), in Moldova (1996), in Ukraine (1998) and in Estonia (1999)
1988–1990: Twenty-months of civilian service in a kindergarten for disabled at Lebenshilfe e.V. in Aachen