Henriette Heimbach is a PhD Researcher at the Institute of Political Science. She is working on interparliamentary relations between France and Germany focussing on the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly. Her research is supervised by Dr. Anna-Lena Högenauer.
Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, she has been working as a Project lead for the Franco-German Dialogue Series at the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School in Berlin. Before that, she worked as a policy advisor on Franco-German relations and European politics for a Member of the German parliament as well as a scientific collaborator for several research institutes such as the Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l’Europe in Luxembourg and the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.
Henriette holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and a second Master’s degree in European politics from the University of Strasbourg, France. In her Bachelor studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, she studied European Ethnology and Political Economy.
Publications:Heimbach, Henriette (2023): Die Deutsch-Französische Parlamentarische Versammlung:ein Schlüsselakteur für die Annäherung der politischen Positionen zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland, in: Deutsch-Französisches Institut (Hrsg.), Frankreich Jahrbuch 2022. Politik der Zeitenwende? Europa im Umbruch, Baden-Baden: Nomos, p. 151-163.
Heimbach, Henriette (2023): L‘Assemblée parlementaire franco-allemande : Un nouvel acteur parlementaire sur la scène franco-allemande, in: Allemagne aujourd’hui, 2023/2, n°244, p. 14-23.
Heimbach, H. and Yann Wernert (2021): The two-step Council presidency. France‘s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the election period. Policy Brief for the Jacques Delors Centre/Hertie School. Online:
Media and press:Franco-German Youth Committee (30.7.2023): Henriette Heimbach. Podcast “Figures franco-allemandes”, Episode 13.
Heimbach, H. (20.01.2023): Se Scholz e Macron sono in contrasto la mediazione passa ai Parlamenti. L’Espresso.