Detlef F. Sprinz is a Senior Scientist with the Research Domain “Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods” of PIK—Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a Professor with the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Germany, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, and Senior Research Fellow I with CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo.

He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and an M.A. (“Diplom-Volkswirt”) in Economics from the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany. During 2006-2007, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, MI, USA, and in 2011, he was appointed Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

His areas of research and publications encompass long-term policy, inter/national institutions & the evaluation of their performance, European & international environmental policy, and modeling political decisions.  He is the guest editor of the special issue of Global Environmental Politics on “Long-term Environmental Policy” (August 2009), co-editor of International Relations and Global Climate Change (The MIT Press, 2001), and of Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations (The University of Michigan Press, 2004) in addition to numerous journal articles.

Detlef Sprinz has taught international relations, international and European environmental policy, and social science methodology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; the Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Potsdam, Germany; in the international joint MA program in International Relations of the Free University Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Potsdam; as well as in the Master of Public Management and the Master of Global Public Policy programs of the University of Potsdam.

Furthermore, he is a member of the European Academy, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany; and serves on the advisory boards of national, European, and international projects and institutions. See www.sprinz.org for further details.