Dr. Ulrike Zeigermann is a political scientist with a research focus on sustainable development, human rights, global governance and comparative policy analysis in the areas of security and development policy. In May 2017, she completed her doctorate at the University of Münster with a thesis on "Development policy coherence - from a vague idea to a global norm?".

Before Ulrike Zeigermann came to the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, she worked at the Marc Bloch Center in the research group "State Action and Knowledge Circulation" Berlin and was a doctoral fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. As part of her research, she also worked as a policy analyst at the OECD in Paris, as a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin and as a research assistant at the University of Surrey.

Ulrike Zeigermann studied political science with a focus on European studies and international relations in a German-French double degree program at Sciences Po Lille and at the University of Münster. She completed her studies with a Master's degree in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science.