Uli Brückner studied Political Science, German Literature and History in Würzburg and Berlin (Freie Universität). Since the mid 1980s European integration is his field of specialization. From 1992 until 2002 Uli Brückner worked at the Department for Political Sciences at the FU Berlin as lecturer and later as Jean Monnet Chairholder, an EU teaching program co-financed by the European Commission.
His Ph.D. is on the role of the European Commission in the policy-making of the EU. From 1997 until 2003 he also worked as a Jean Monnet visiting professor at Szczecin University in Poland.
Since 1999 Uli Brückner taught at Stanford University in Berlin and in California. He is a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and also worked with universities in Madrid, Lille, Paris, Dubai, Pune, Istanbul, Bratislava, Shanghai, Moscow and Minsk.
In 2003 he became EU Jean Monnet Professor at Stanford and taught in California in spring and in the Berlin program in fall / winter.
Uli Brückner is a member of the expert services of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and of TEAM Europe, the speakers service of the European Union. He also worked for the International Training for Diplomats Programme at the German Federal Foreign Office and for NATO School in Oberammergau.
In Berlin his current and former affiliations include New York University in Berlin, the German Program and the Metropolitan Program of IES, the european school of governance (eusg), EAWSR, FU Berlin International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS), Comillas University Madrid, East European Studies Online and IR online Gulf Region at the Freie University Berlin. He also worked for Duke, Houston, American University and LEXIA.
Uli Brückner is member of the board of directors of the institute for cultural diplomacy (icd) Berlin / New York.
In 2011 he served in India as a consultant for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to set up a European Studies Program in Pune.
His current fields of interests are institutional developments in the EU, the political economy of European integration, the sovereign debt crisis, the refugee crisis, cultural policy, external affairs and enlargement of the EU, including Turkey.
