Anne Schippling is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) of the Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon and research associate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, where she obtained her doctorate at 2007.  

She was a researcher at the University of Coimbra (2002-2007), the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2010-2011), assistant professor at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (2008-2015) and an invited lecturer at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany (2016-2022). From 2013 to 2015 she directed a research project on the internationalisation of the Grandes Écoles, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Furthermore, she worked as an associated researcher in several research projects on education and social inequalities within the framework of the research group Mechanisms of Elite Formation in the German Educational System (FOR 1612).  

From 2016 to 2022 she worked on a postdoctoral research project on international schools in Lisbon and the biographical trajectories of the students of those schools, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Lisbon (Ref. SFRH/BPD/112406/2015).

She co-directed, between 2018 and 2019, a cooperation project with the University of Göttingen on theoretical concepts and methodological approaches for Global Citizenship Education (funded by FCT/DAAD). She is a founder of the “Transnationalisation and Education” international network, which includes various universities in Portugal, Brazil, and Germany since 2019. 

Since 2022 she is directing a research on IB World Schools in countries with Portuguese as official language (Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique), promoted by the FCT within the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) in Educational Sciences (Ref. 2021.03720.CEECIND/CP1694/CT0005).