Jale Tosun is professor of political science at Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Konstanz in December 2009. From 2009 to 2012 she was an assistant professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. After working at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research from 2012 to 2013 as a Research Fellow, she joined Heidelberg University as an assistant professor of international and comparative political economy. Her main research areas comprise comparative public policy and political economy as well as European integration. She is the coordinator of the EU-funded collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship: Family Values and Youth Unemployment in Europe” (CUPESSE)