Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal
Adress
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Office
Room 2030
Contact
Phone: +49 30 2093-20000
Fax: +49 30 2093-20001
praesidentin@hu-berlin.de
Curriculum Vitae
Julia von Blumenthal has been president of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since October 1st 2022. From 1989 to 1996, she studied Political Sciences, Law and Slavonic Studies (Russian Studies) in Heidelberg and Hamburg. Julia von Blumenthal received her Doctorate in 2001 and her Habilitation in Political Sciences in 2007 from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (today the Helmut Schmidt University). After a visiting fellowship in Canberra and a deputy professorship at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, she held a fixed term professorship for German and comparative politics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Julia von Blumenthal has been a Professor of German Politics at the Department of Social Sciences of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009. She has served as Dean of Studies, and afterwards as Dean of the Faculty of Arts III. In 2014, she became Founding Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. From October 2018 to October 2022 she was President of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). As a political scientist she has conducted research on German politics, especially on federalism and parliaments and on the role of higher education institutions for the integration of refugees.
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