Faculty

PhD supervisors

Before applying to any of our doctoral programmes, please check our list of potential supervisors to make sure that your intended research project is in line with their areas of research. You can also find out more about our research or browse our publications. We have a central selection committee and individual professors cannot decide about admission to our programme. Our policy is not to advise on individual research proposals. We therefore kindly ask you to refrain from contacting potential supervisors for your application.  

 

 

Hertie School Faculty

  • Helmut Anheier
    Professor of Sociology

    Governance; civil society; nonprofit organisations and philanthropy; social innovations; organisational studies and institutional analysis; cultural policy; research methods, indicators; comparative sociology

  • Ruth Ditlmann
    Professor of Social Psychology

    The social psychology of intergroup relations; intergroup contact; anti-bias and micro-level peacebuilding interventions; dyadic processes in intergroup dialogues; implicit motives; social impact and the use of evidence in the third sector

  • Slava Jankin
    Professor of Data Science and Public Policy

    Data science; applications of machine learning and natural language processing

  • Lynn Kaack
    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy | Data Science Lab

    Climate and energy policy; applications of data science and machine learning; method development in policy analysis; policy and governance questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and climate change

  • Mark Kayser
    Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics

    Political behaviour; elections; political institutions; political economy; representation and accountability; populism; coalition bargaining

  • Michaela Kreyenfeld
    Professor of Sociology

    Quantitative research (with micro level data); public policy and demographic behaviour; public policy and family behaviour (fertility, marriage, divorce etc.); migration and integration
     

  • Johanna Mair
    Professor for Organization, Strategy and Leadership

    Organisational theory and institutional analysis; alternative forms of economic organising (including social enterprises and sharing platform organisations); social problems – the promise and perils of innovation, scaling and system change
     

  • Sébastien Mena
    Professor of Organization and Governance

    Management and organisation studies; organisation theory; organisational sociology; business and society; corporate social responsibility; corporate sustainability; business ethics; sustainable development

  • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
    Professor of Democracy Studies

    Transitions to democracy and reversals to autocratic rule; the development of rule of law and control of corruption; collective action solutions for governance problems; institutional change through democracy promotion and development assistance; the European Union role in shaping governance through EU funds, assistance and conditionality; the anti-elite sentiment in the developed world and the rise of populism; crony capitalism and media capture

  • Arianna Ornaghi
    Assistant Professor of Economics

    Empirical political economy; law and economics; economics of crime; economics of media

  • Andrea Römmele
    Dean of Executive Education and Professor for Communication in Politics and Civil Society

    Media and society; campaigns and elections; political parties in a comparative perspective; political consulting and policy advice

  • Mujaheed Shaikh
    Professor of Health Governance

    Health economics and management; health expenditures; hospital efficiency and competition; health insurance; health inequality; social determinants of health

  • Kai Wegrich
    Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy

    Bureaucracy and policymaking; politics-administration relations; policy instruments; administrative capacities; the politics of enforcement; regulation and regulatory reform (i.e. "better regulation")

 

 

Faculty affiliated with the Centre for Digital Governance

  • Joanna Bryson
    Professor of Ethics and Technology | Centre for Digital Governance

    Transnational governance of technology; economic and social impacts of ICT; transparency for AI regulation

  • Gerhard Hammerschmid
    Professor of Public and Financial Management | Director, Centre for Digital Governance

    Public management (reform); public sector innovation; digital government; HRM; organisation theory

  • Thurid Hustedt
    Professor of Public Administration and Management | Centre for Digital Governance

    Comparative public administration; politics and administration; policy advice; digital governance; public sector innovation

  • Daniela Stockmann
    Professor of Digital Governance | Centre for Digital Governance

    Digital governance; new media, public opinion and political participation; marketisation of media; rise of authoritarianism; public opinion and foreign policymaking; Chinese politics and media; platform regulation

 

 

Faculty affiliated with the Centre for Fundamental Rights

  • Başak Çalı
    Professor of International Law | Director Centre for Fundamental Rights

    International law and global governance; evolution and innovation in international law; reception and impact of international law in domestic settings; human rights interpretation, impact and legitimacy of international human rights law; comparative human rights law, regional human rights courts; European Court Human Rights; the United Nations Human Rights Regime

  • Cathryn Costello
    Professor of Fundamental Rights | Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights

    International and European refugee and migration law; international and European law and governance of asylum and migration; labour rights and the governance of migration; global governance of asylum and migration; comparative migration and refugee law and politics; administrative justice and administrative governance of asylum and migration

 

 

Faculty affiliated with the Centre for International Security

  • Anita Gohdes
    Professor of International and Cyber Security | Centre for International Security

    Political violence; empirical studies of conflict processes; empirical studies of human rights; topics related to the role of communication technology and social media in contentious processes; cyber conflict and cyber war

  • Marina Henke
    Professor of International Relations | Centre for International Security

    European security and defence policy; Grand Strategy; nuclear policy; military interventions and peacekeeping

  • Julian Wucherpfennig
    Professor of International Affairs and Security | Centre for International Security

    Political violence and conflict processes; (ethnic) civil war; terrorism; ethnic powersharing; irregular migration; forecasting in international affairs; quantitative approaches to international security

 

 

Faculty affiliated with the Centre for Sustainability

  • Lion Hirth
    Assistant Professor of Governance of Digitalisation and Energy Policy | Centre for Sustainability

    Energy economics and policy, in particular economics of renewables; electricity markets; energy system modeling

  • Christian Flachsland
    Professor of Sustainability | Director, Centre for Sustainability

    Climate policy institutions and governance; climate policy instrument mix; interest groups and public preferences; science-policy interface

 

 

Faculty affiliated with the Jacques Delors Centre

  • Mark Dawson
    Professor of European Law and Governance

    EU governance and regulation; fundamental rights; EU institutional law; the European Court of Justice; EU social law and policy; Economic and Monetary Union; accountability; the rule of law

  • Anke Hassel
    Professor of Public Policy | Co-Director Jacques Delors Centre

    Comparative political economy; varieties of capitalism; labour and trade unions; EU labour migration and labour market policy; digital transformation and the future of work

  • Markus Jachtenfuchs
    Professor of European and Global Governance | Director, Jacques Delors Centre

    European Union politics, particularly solidarity and fiscal transfers; comparative federalism and the EU; European and global Internet governance

  • Christine Reh
    Dean of Graduate Programmes and Professor of European Politics

    European Union institutions and politics; legislative behaviour, decision making and organisation; multi-level governance (in particular: Legitimacy, politicisation and contestation)

 

 

 

 

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