Tanja Brühl

Brühl studied biology and social studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt and graduated in 1994 with the state examination. Her title of her thesis was "Biodiversity loss: a new problem in international relations" (German: Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt: Ein neues Problem der internationalen Beziehungen). She then worked as a research assistant with Franz Nuscheler at the Chair of Comparative and International Politics at the Mercator University in Duisburg, now the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 1997 she was also active at the Institute for Development and Peace also in Duisburg and was a Fulbright fellow at the American Studies Summer Institute of the New York University. From 1999 she worked as a research assistant for Volker Rittberger at the chair of international politics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

In 2001 she returned to Goethe University and became a research assistant at Lothar Brock's Institute for Comparative Politics and International Relations. There she received her doctorate in November 2002 with a thesis on non-governmental organisations as actors in international environmental negotiations. In December 2002 she was appointed associate professor for peace and conflict research. In October 2007 she was appointed professor of political science with a focus on international institutions and peace processes.

On 29 August 2012 Brühl was elected vice-president of the Goethe University Frankfurt. She took office on 1 October 2012, succeeding physicist Roser Valenti.[2] On 6 March 2019 Brühl was elected president of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her term of office began on October 1, 2019, replacing Hans Jürgen Prömel after his second term in office.[3][4][5] With the change she also became president of the CLUSTER network.[6]

In June 2008 she was awarded the 1822 and University Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the Goethe University, endowed with 15,000 euros.[7] In 2009 she was awarded the Hessian University Prize for Excellence in Teaching, endowed with 150,000 euros, for her and her working group.[8]

• Nichtregierungsorganisationen als Akteure internationaler Umweltverhandlungen. Ein Erklärungsmodell auf der Basis der situationsspezifischen Ressourcennachfrage, Frankfurt /New York: Campus, 2003. ISBN 359337353X.
• Der Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt. Ein neues Problem der internationalen Beziehungen. Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1995. ISBN 3926979585.
• Unternehmen in der Weltpolitik, Dietz, 2004, ISBN 3801203484.