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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Anke Hassel
    Professor of Public Policy | 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Christian Traxler
    Professor of Economics

    Economics of mobility transition; taxation of cars; transportation economics
     

  • Christine Reh
    Professor of European Politics | Jacques Delors Centre

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

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

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

  • Egon Tripodi
    Assistant Professor of Economics

    Experiments; behavioral economics; persuasion; economics of charity; empirical political economy

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

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

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

    National and transnational governance and policy for technology, particularly digital technologies; computation and artificial intelligence as utilities; economic and social impacts of digital and communication technologies, including variation in public goods investment, polarisation; transparency for AI regulation

  • Johanna Mair
    Professor for Organization, Strategy and Leadership

    Organisational theory and institutional analysis; alternative forms of economic organising (including social enterprises); social problems and system change; re-embed democracy in capitalism

  • 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

  • Kai Wegrich
    Dean of Faculty and Research | 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")

  • 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

  • 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 Dawson
    Professor of European Law and Governance | Jacques Delors Centre

    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

  • Mark Kayser
    Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics

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

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

    European Union politics, particularly relating to core state powers; solidarity and fiscal policy; comparative federalism and the EU

  • 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
     

  • Mujaheed Shaikh
    Professor of Health Governance

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shubha Kamala Prasad
    Assistant Professor of International Relations

    Foreign policy analysis; insurgencies; human rights; diaspora politics; multi-methods

  • Simon Munzert
    Assistant Professor of Data Science and Public Policy

    Data science; computational social science; experimental science; political communication; public opinion; political behavior; elections; online media

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

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

 

 

 

 

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