Prof Dr Florence Metz leads and participates in internationally funded projects (e.g. by the Swiss National Science Foundation or the European Research Council). She has experience in field research in Europe, South East Asia and Africa. In 2023, she received the Professor De Winter Award for her co-authored article 'Policy Networks Across Political Systems' published in the American Journal of Political Science. In 2025, she received an ERC Starting Grant for her research project Climplexity (Grant agreement ID: 101163928) on EU climate governance and policy integration. 

Public policy and policymaking processes

• Theories of the policy process
• Politics of transitions
• Actor networks, multi-level and cross-sectoral collaboration, collaborative governance
• Policy preferences
• Policy diffusion
• Decision-making under uncertainty
• Policy integration, policy complexity
• Discourses, discourse networks

Environmental policy

• Water policy, flood risk management
• Agricultural policy, land-use changes
• Energy policy
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), SDG interactions
• Social-ecological systems 

Data gathering and analysis

• Comparative policy analysis
• Survey design
• Text coding
• Interviews
• Process-tracing
• Computational network analysis
• Exponential random graph modeling
• Discourse analysis