Søren Serritzlew is Professor at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University and has previously been appointed to Independent Research Fund Denmark's academic research council DFF | Social Sciences for a 6-year period (2018-2023), three of which he was chairman (2019-2021). During this time, he was also appointed chairman of the group of chairs from the five research councils. Søren Serritzlew is internationally recognised with an interdisciplinary research profile, researching public administration and bureaucracy as well as the relationship between state and municipalities.