PhD supervisors

Professor of Sociology

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

Transparency for regulation and governance of AI and ICT; Impact of AI on wages and redistribution; 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

Joanna J. Bryson will join the Hertie School in February 2020.

Professor of International Law | Director, Centre for Fundamental Rights

International law and global governance; regime interaction: integration and collusion in international law; evolution of international law; reception and impact of international law in domestic settings; interpretation of human rights law; enforcement, impact and legitimacy of international human rights law; comparative human rights law, regional human rights courts; European Court Human Rights; United Nations Human Rights Regime

Assistant Professor for Public Administration

State and administrative capacity building; digital technologies for policy implementation; transparency and accountability; EU digital governance; digital services and Open Data

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

Cathryn Costello will join the Hertie School in September 2020.

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

Professor of Sustainability

Climate and energy governance; climate and energy policy assessment; science-policy interface

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

Economics of wind and solar power; energy policy instruments and electricity market design; open data and open-source modelling

Professor of Public Administration and Management

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

Professor of Economics

International trade, exports and FDI; firm-level dynamics and productivity; innovation and innovation policy; entrepreneurship; policy evaluation, RCT and impact evaluation; development economics; youth employment and active labour market interventions

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

European Union politics; comparative federalism and the EU; European and global internet governance

Professor of Data Science and Public Policy

Data science; machine learning and natural language processing; health implications of climate change; machine learning for climate change; machine learning for health; AI Governance

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

Public opinion; digital political communication; online data and survey methods; political behaviour and voting; political representation

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 policy-making; Chinese politics and media

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

Bureaucratic policymaking; comparative analysis of regulation of the platform economy; knowledge and policy; experimental policymaking; regulation and regulatory agencies

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