Stefanie Börner is Junior Professor of European Societies at the Department of Social Sciences at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Dr. Börner's main fields of research are EU integration, the sociology of social policy, social theory, and welfare state transformation. She is the author of Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in Social Policy (2013) and the editor of several books.
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and Associate Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. Dr. Seeleib-Kaiser has held appointments at Duke University and Bremen University, and was a visiting scholar at Shizuoka University, Aalborg University, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. He has authored and edited several books, and is an editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.