Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer

Contact

+49 641 99 23113

+49 641 99 23119

Sandra.Schwindenhammer@sowi.uni-giessen.de

Academic Career
Since 06/2019	Principal Investigator Collaborative SUSKULT Project "Development of a Sustainable Cultivation System for Food in Resilient Metropolitan Regions", 2019-2022, Funding Organization: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
08/2015 - 01/2021	Co-Principal Investigator TANNRE Project "The Transformation Potential of Inter-institutional Arrangements and the Norm of Sustainability in the Global Regime Complex for Food", 2017-2021, Funding Organization: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
04/2015 - 09/2016	Interim Professor of International Politics, Humboldt-University of Berlin
03/2014	Assistant Professor of International Relations, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
03/2013 - 03/2014	Parental Leave
04/2011	Doctorate in Political Science and Economics (Doctor Rerum Politicarum), Technische Universität Darmstadt (magna cum laude)
11/2008 - 03/2014	Research Associate, FernUniversität in Hagen (awarded by the Post-Doctoral Gender Funding Program with a Part-time Position exclusively for Independent Research since 10/01/2011)
11/2005 - 10/2008	Research Associate, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Research Project “Corporations as Norm-Entrepreneurs?”, Funding Organization: German Research Foundation (DFG)
09/1999 - 08/2005	Studies in Political Science (Major), Sociology (Minor), Law (Minor), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Final Grade 1,0 (passed with distinction)

Further Information
Affiliation	Member of ZEU \| Post Doc
Focus Area	Food & Energy Systems
References	Research Gate
Project Involvements	Principal Investigator Collaborative SUSKULT Project "Development of a Sustainable Cultivation System for Food in Resilient Metropolitan Regions", 2019-2022, Funding Organization: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Project Coordinator "Global Agricultural Governance and Transnational Relations (GAGTS)"
Memberships since 01/2020	Steering Committee Member, Research Network "Food Policy and Governance"
Since 09/2018	Speaker of the Working Group "Environmental Politics and Global Change" of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)
Since 10/2017	Official Representative (OR) of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Since 11/2016	Senior Scientist at the Center for international Development and Environmental Research (ZEU)\| Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Research Areas	Nachhaltigkeitstransformation, (urbane) Agrarsysteme der Zukunft, Theorien und Konflikte globaler Normen und Regime (Sustainable Development Goals), Governance in und zwischen internationalen Organisationen, Agency und politische Autorität privater Akteure, Governance durch Standards, Governance in den Schwerpunktbereichen globale Nachhaltigkeits-, Ernährungs- und Landwirtschaftspolitik