PhD supervisors

Professor of Sociology

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

Professor of Ethics and Technology

Impact of AI on wages, redistribution, inequality, and social engagement; Interacting roles of governments and transnational entities in governance and public service provision, particularly in the digital domain; Digital technology, identity, polarisation, and public goods investment; Transparency for regulation and governance, particularly of AI / ICT; Digital market dominance

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

Assistant Professor for Public Administration

Digital capacity building in the public sector; representative bureaucracies; diversity and inclusiveness in organisations

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

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; the law and policy of EU economic governance; accountability

Professor of Sustainability

Climate policy institutions; climate policy instrument mix; EU climate governance

Professor of International and Cyber 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

Assistant Professor of Educational Governance

Educational governance and labour markets; institutional and organisational change; comparative capitalism, welfare states, social inequalities; collective governance, intermediary organisations; European educational policy; policy transfer

Dean of Research and Faculty and Professor of Public Management and Political Economy

Fiscal aspects of demographic change

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

Public management (reform); comparative public administration; performance management; public sector innovation; government digitalisation; organisation theory; new institutionalism

Professor of Public Policy

Comparative political economy; varieties of capitalism; labour and trade unions; Corporate Social Responsibility; labour migration and labour market policy; digital transformation and the future of work; pension policy

Professor of International Relations

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

Assistant Professor of Governance of Digitalisation and Energy Policy

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

Lion Hirth is affiliated with the Centre for Sustainability.

Professor of Public Administration and Management

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

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

Professor of Data Science and Public Policy

Data science; applications of machine learning and natural language processing

Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics

Political economy; behavioural responses to economic change; electoral accountability; policy responsiveness; distributive politics; the politics of globalisation; media and the economy

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

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

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

Assistant Professor of Data Science and Public Policy

Data science; public opinion; digital political communication; political behaviour and voting; political representation; experimental methods; online data and survey methods; hate speech

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)

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

Professor of Health Governance

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

Professor of Macroeconomics and Sustainability

The future of work; the corporation oriented to social purpose; multilevel governance for global problem-solving; public policy for digital property rights; public policy and psychologically motivated decision making; economic policy and identity politics

Professor of 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

Professor of Economics

Taxation, evasion and enforcement; economics of crime and law enforcement; nudging and behavioural economics; applied micro more broadly

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")

Professor of International Affairs and Security

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