Biography

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at LMU Munich’s Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science. He previously was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis “After Exit: Alternative Leadership and Institutional Resilience after Hegemonic Withdrawal” was awarded “summa cum laude” honours at LMU Munich and he received the John McCain Dissertation Award of the Munich Security Conference 2025 and the Dissertation Award of the Munich University Society. It was supported by scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Marianne-Plehn-Programme of the Elite Network of Bavaria.
Tim Heinkelmann-Wild is a political scientist who specialises in International Relations (IR) and European politics. His research inter alia focuses on the contestation of multilateral institutions and the relationship between power and international order. Its results appeared in journals such as the Review of International Organizations, International Studies Quarterly, the Review of International Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and the Journal of European Public Policy. His co-authored book “European Blame Games” was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. At the EUI, he will investigate how major powers’ (dis-)engagement in key multilateral institutions affects the international orders they underpin.

Mentor

• Stephanie, Hofmann

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• WEISS, Moritz; HEINKELMANN-WILD, Tim Philipp (2020), Disarmed principals : institutional resilience and the non-enforcement of delegation, Article