Florence Metz has been Professor of Policy Analysis and Political Economy at RPTU Kaiserslautern since April 2025. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Governance Resilience at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Dr Metz completed her PhD at the University of Bern on political networks and water protection policy. 

Her research is anchored in the theoretical debates of public policy research and examines how political decision-making processes can contribute to sustainability transitions.

• Since 2025 Professor for Policy Analysis and Political Economy at the Department of Political Science, University of Kaiserslautern
• 2020 - 2025 Assistant Professor for Governance Resilience at the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, University of Twente in the Netherlands
• 2018 - 2020 Postdoctoral researcher at the Natural Resource Policy Group, ETH Zurich in Switzerland
• 2016 - 2017 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science and the Centre for Development and Environment and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern in Switzerland
• 2012 - 2015 PhD at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern in Switzerland