Prof. Dr. Laura Seelkopf

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Prof. Dr. Laura Seelkopf conducts research on international and comparative tax and social policy. She has been a professor at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at LMU Munich since February 2022 and serves as the institute's director since October 2026.

Her previous positions include posts at the University of St. Gallen, the European University Institute in Florence, and the University of Bremen. She studied at the Universities of Konstanz and Pavia and received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex in 2012.

Laura Seelkopf served as an elected member of the German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD, 2020–2026) and is a jury member for the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize for Social Science Essays. She was also a member of the Executive Board of the German Political Science Association (DVPW, 2018–2021) and of the Political Economy Section (2015–2021), as well as an associate editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development (2018–2020). She is an affiliated member of the Research Center for Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) at the University of Bremen, the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), and the GIST Hub LMU/UC.