Chair of Political Science Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun
Contact
Heidelberg University
Institute of Political Science
Bergheimer Str. 58 | 69115 Heidelberg
Office: 03.045
Email: jale.tosun[at]ipw.uni-heidelberg.de
Please always contact Prof. Tosun's secretariat with your inquiries. Emails sent directly to Prof. Tosun will not be answered.
For questions and requests regarding:
- Deadlines, exam registration, grade lists and grade entry, please contact Peter Abelmann (Office 02.010d, Tel. +49 6221 54 3261),
- Registration, advising, certificates and courses in heiCO, please contact Clara Peckelhoff (Office 03.003, Tel. +49 6221 54 3099),
Secretariat
Maria Louise Brønnum Herz, M.A.
Heidelberg University
Institute of Political Science
Bergheimer Str. 58 | 69115 Heidelberg
Office: 03.044
Phone: +49 6221 54 3412
Email: maria.herz[at]ipw.uni-heidelberg.de
Office hours: Monday 9:00 to 13:30, Tuesday to Thursday 8:30 to 13:30

Office Hours
Office hours can take place in person or by video conference. Please register by signing up on the online list.
Your online registration is binding. If you cannot attend, please remove your name from the list in good time. For reasons of fairness, please do not book appointments as a precaution, but only when you have an immediate or foreseeable need to talk.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Herz in the secretariat rather than Prof. Tosun directly.
Curriculum Vitae
Jale Tosun, born in 1980, is Professor of Political Science at the IPW. She studied political science and public administration in Konstanz and Pavia and earned her doctorate at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on transition-related changes in environmental policy in Latin America and Eastern Europe. After working as a Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, she joined the IPW as a Junior Professor in October 2013. She has been Professor of Political Science since March 2015.
Her teaching and research focus on the comparative study of regulation in the fields of environment, energy, climate change and sustainability, as well as distributive conflicts within the European Union and the EU's influence on regulation in third countries. Jale Tosun is co-editor of the journals Policy Sciences and Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht and leads a working group in the COST Action INOGOV. She is an active member of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment and an External Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
Publikationen
Committee Memberships
- Member of the Research Council of Field of Focus 4 (FoF4)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg
- Member of the Forschungs- und Strategiekommission
- Deputy Chair of the GESIS User Advisory Board
- Deputy Director of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Brandt School of Public Policy
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies
Advisory Board Memberships
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of European Public Policy
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
- Member of the Advisory Board of Heidelberg University Publishing
Editorial Roles
- Member of the Editorial Board of Policy Sciences
- Member of the Editorial Board of the International Review of Public Policy
- Member of the Editorial Board of Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht