Teaching Staff Munich

Michael Bauer; LMU Munich, C.A.P.

Michael Bauer is a Senior Researcher in the Research Group on European Affairs and heads the project on Europe and the Middle East at the Center for Applied Policy Research (C•A•P). His research focus is on European foreign policy and international security and political, social and economic transformation processes in Arab countries. He is the academic coordinator of the European Studies Programs of the Munich International Summer University, visiting lecturer at the MAEUS-program of the Chulalongkorn University, as well as member of the Steering Committee of the EU-funded al-Jisr project on Public Diplomacy and of the Euro-Mediterranean Studies Commission (EuroMeSCo). 

Michael Bauer holds a MA in political science and a postgraduate degree in educational science. He studied in Munich and Aberystwyth (UK).

Sebastian Schäffer; LMU Munich, C.A.P.

Sebastian Schäffer is founder of SSC Europe (ssc-europe.eu), a competence network for Seminars, Simulations and Consulting in Berlin. He is member of the Academic Council of the Munich European Forum e.V. and Associate Researcher at the Center for Applied Policy Research.

Prior to that he has been a lecturer and research fellow at the Institute for Political Science of the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the Institute for Political Science and Communication Studies of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald. He worked as a research fellow in the research group on European Affairs at the Center for Applied Policy Research and was also a lecturer at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Sebastian Schäffer studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and at the University of Regensburg. He received a M.A. in Political Science, European Law and Slavonic Studies. He also holds a Honours Masters degree in East European Studies.