Ulrich Sedelmeier is a Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He obtained his MA and PhD from the University of Sussex. Before joining ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, he was Associate Professor of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University, Budapest. He was a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, the University of Mannheim, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, and the University of Copenhagen. He held a Jean Monnet Fellowship (2001/02) and a Marie-Curie Fellowship (2005-06) at the European University Institute, Florence; and a Research Fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (2010). Between 2013-2016, he was co-investigator and ½ûÂþÌìÌà team leader for the EU-funded research consortium MAXCAP, which researched the link between the EU’s integration capacity and EU eastern enlargement.
He is the author of The Path to Eastern Enlargement: the Uneven Policy Impact of EU Identity (Manchester University Press, 2005) and the co-editor of The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe (Cornell University Press, 2005), The Politics of European Union Enlargement (Routledge, 2005), International Influence Beyond Conditionality: Postcommunist Europe after EU Enlargement (Routledge, 2009) and Developments in European Politics (Palgrave, 2011). He has published in journals such as European Journal of Political Research; Journal of Common Market Studies; Journal of European Public Policy; and West European Politics. He was awarded the prize for (joint) best article published in JCMS in 2014.