Dr. Annette ZIMMER Professor for German and European Social Policy and Comparative Politics, Insitute of Political Science, University of Munster

1980-1983 Research Assistant, Heidelberg University 1986-1987 Research Associate, Yale Univervsity, New Haven 1986 Doctorate, Heidelberg University 1989-1995 Assistant Professor, University of Kassel 1995 Habilition, University of Kassel 1996 Professor, German and European Social Policy and Comparative Politics, University of Munster 1998-1999 DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service, Visiting Professor, University of Toronto 2009 Visiting Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, New York City 2016-2017 President of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Baltimore