Rubina Zern-Breuer

Rubina is a senior researcher at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, where she has headed the Innovation Lab for Public Administration since 2018. After studying Modern and Contemporary History and Sociology at the University of Karlsruhe, she completed her PhD at the University of Würzburg, spending time abroad at the DHI Rome. In addition to coordinating public science projects at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, further positrons took her to the University of Heidelberg and to the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI.
Rubina is interested in current developments and innovation processes at the interface of science, public administration and civil society as well as the application of creative and design methods. She has focused in particular at the role of innovation processes in administrative digitisation and trust building in multi-stakeholder processes. She has been a Fellow at InnOsci, a think tank of the Stifterverband and is this year’s Fellow of the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, USA.