Simon Immanuel Lenhart studied Social and Political Sciences (B.Sc. and M.A.) at the University of Cologne from 2013 to 2017. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a research associate in the project “REGIOPARL - Regional Parliaments Lab” at the Department of European Politics and Democracy Research at University for Continuing Education Krems, which focused on the comparative analysis of regional parliaments and their role in the European multilevel system. Subsequently, from 2022 to 2026, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Political Science at FernUniversität in Hagen in the chair “Political Science III: Public Policy Analysis and Environmental Policy,” where he expanded his profile in European Studies to include public policy analysis. In addition, he was involved in the research project “KommZuEU: Municipalities as Anchors of Cohesion in the European Multilevel System” (2021–2023), which examined the role of German municipalities within the European multilevel system. He completed his PhD in Political Science with a focus on European politics at the University of Tübingen from 2021 to 2025. In his dissertation entitled “Striving for Greater Influence: An Analysis of the Institutional Activism of the European Committee of the Regions in the Conference on the Future of Europe,” he analyses the institutional activism of the Committee of the Regions during phases of EU reform.
Through his stay as a visiting fellow at the ECRF, he builds on his previous research on the role of regional and local actors in the European multilevel system and further develops this focus.
Research interests:
- European politics and European integration
- Regional and local authorities in the European multilevel system
- Comparative parliamentary research
- Public policy analysis
E-Mail: simon-immanuel.lenhart@uni-tuebingen.de
