Doctoral Students

Responsibilities

Education: 
M. Sc. in Mathematics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
M.A. in Public Economics and Applied Statistics, Institute for Empirical
Research in Political Economy (IERPE), Benin
B. Sc. in Mathematics, University of Lomé, Togo

First Supervisor: Dr. Anja Osei

Research Interests:

• Comparative Politics in emerging African democracies
• Legislatures development
• Agreement and Disagreement detection in political debates using Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Statistical Learning and Machine Learning

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Education: MA in Political Science University of Mannheim

First Supervisor: Prof. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

• Economic Sanctions, International Organisations, Human Rights, Authoritarian Regimes

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Education: MSc in Economics, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Sebastian Fehrler

Research Interests:

• Behavioral and Experimental Economics
• Applied Game Theory

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Education: MA in Politics and Public Administration & European Governance, University of Konstanz and Utrecht

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze

Research Interests:

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Education:
MA in Global Affairs, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
BA in Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Malang

Research Interests:

• Legislatures in International Politics
• Legitimacy of International Organisations
• Statistical Network Analysis
• Survey Experiments

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Education: M. Sc. in Economics, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Findeisen​​​​​​​

Research Interests:
- Economics of Education
- Public Economics
- Labor Economics
- Quantitative Methods in Empirical Microeconomics

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Education:
Master in Social & Economic Data Science, University of Konstanz
BA in politics and public administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor:  Prof. Dr. Peter Selb

Research Interests:

• survey methology
• poll accuracy
• election forecasting

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Education:
M. Sc. in Public Policy & Human Development with a specialisation in Social Protection, Maastricht University and United Nations University MERIT 
B. A. in Sociology, Politics & Economics, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen

First Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Kurer

Research Interests:
- Economic and political inequality
- Different dimensions of socio-economic mobility
- Labor market an social policy

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Education: M. A. in Empirical Political and Social Research, University of Stuttgart
B. A.  in Social Science, University of Stuttgart

First Supervisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Steffen Eckhard

Research Interests:
- Computational Social Science 
- Discrimination and Racial Inequality
- Migration research
- Post-colonial approaches in research

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Education:

Master of Science in Economics, University of Konstanz

Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Axel Kind

Research Interests:

• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Sustainable Finance

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Education: M.A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Boerner

Research Interests:

• Shared Leadership
• Leadership Emergence
• Soziale Netzwerkanalyse
• Diversität
• Resilienz

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Education: MA in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, BA Sociology, Politics & Economics, Zeppelin University

First Supervisor: Prof. Nils B. Weidmann

Research Interests:

- Ethnic Politics
- Political Communication with Digital Media
- Quantitative Methods

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Education: MA in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christina Zuber

Research Interests:

• Ethnic politics
• Inequality
• Mobilization and conflict

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Education: 
MA in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

BA in Political Science and Economics, Osnabrück University

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Spilker

Research Interests:

• Climate change, natural disasters and political conflict
• Quantitative methods and spatial analysis
• Horizontal inequality

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Education:
B. Sc. in Civil Engineering
M. Sc. in Management of Projects, GDip in Economics

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

Research Interests:

• Experimental and Behavioural Economics
• Decision Sciences
• Moral and Social Behaviour
• Inequality

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Education: M.Sc. Political Economy, University of Konstanz, B.Sc. Economics and Business, University of Milan-Bicocca

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider

Research interests:

• Political Economy
• Trade policies
• Trade wars

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Education:

M. A. in Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

B. A. in Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel

Research Interests:

• Digital Transformation in the Public Administration
• Open Data
• Public Participation in the Transformation of the Public Administration

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Education:

M. Sc. in Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden

B. A. in Development studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Koos

Research Interests:

• Environmental attitudes and behavior
• Marginalized groups and socioeconomic inequalities
• Sustainable development

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Education:

M. Sc. in Mathematical Finance, University of Konstanz

B. Sc. in Mathematical Finance, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel Fischer

Research Interests:

• Life-Cycle Models
• Retirement Savings

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Education:
MA in Political Sciene, University of Salzburg
BA in Political Science, University of Salzburg

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Spilker

Research Interests:
- Climate Change
- Extreme Weather Events
- Conflict 
- Inequality
- Political Participation

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Education:
M. Sc. in Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
B. Sc. in Economics,  University of Hamburg

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler

Research Interests:
- Development Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Violence and Conflict

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Education:
M. Sc. in European Studies, University of Gothenburg
M. A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz
B. A. in Political Science, University of Mannheim

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen

Research Interests:
- International Politics
- European Politics 
- European Integration
- Contemporary History
- German Democratic Republic 

Responsibilities

Education: M.A. in Political Science and Public Administration, U. of Konstanz.
B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration, U. of Konstanz.

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christina Zuber

Research Interests:
- Democratic Backsliding
- Historical Legacies
- Natural Experiments
- Cultural and sports hallmark events

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Education: 

M. Sc. Economics, University of Konstanz

B. Sc. Economics, Universitiy of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stefani

Research Interests:

• Accounting
• Auditing

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Education:

M. A. in Sociology University of Konstanz
B. A. in Sociology and Law University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hinz

Research Interests:

• structural inequality
• public health research
• social discrimination

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Education: M.Sc. Work and Organisational Psychology (Maastricht University)
B.A. Politics and Public Administration (University of Konstanz)

First Supervisor:  Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze

Research Interests:

• ­New Work 
• Employee Health 
• Automatisation and Digitalisation 
• Inequalities in Organisations 

CV

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Education:
M. A. in Sociology - European Societies, Free University Berlin, Germany
B. A. in Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susanne Strauss

Research Interests:
- Health and Well-Being
- Labour Market Sociology
- Gender Inequalities
- Quantitative Methods

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Education:

M. A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

B. A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

• Migration research (in particular asylum and visa)
• Judicial politics
• Decision-making on asylum applications and appeals
• Natural language processing

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Education:

M.A. in Global Governance, Inter-cultural diplomacy and peace management from the University of Siena (Università degli Studi di Siena).

B.A. in International Affairs from the American University of Science and Technology (AUST).

First Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Malang

Research Interests:

• Foreign influence of national legislators
• Statistical network analysis
• Middle East and North African geopolitics and legislators
• Consociationall and identity-based politics
• Networks of international legislators

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Education:

M.A in Economics, University of Dar es Salaam

B.A in Economics and Statistics, University of Dar es Salaam

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler

Research Interests:

• Development Economics
• Violence
• Political Economy
• Program Evaluation

Responsibilities

Education: 

M.A. in Politics and Public Administration with spezializations in Management and Empirical Research Methods, University of Konstanz

B.A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Kunze

Research Interests:

• diversity at the workplace
• gender diversity
• demographic diversity
• women in top management
• gender pay gap

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Education: M. Sc. in Economics & Health Economics, Lund University; B. Sc. in Economics, University of Jena

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt

Research Interests:
- Health
- Education
- Labour
- Applied Microeconometrics

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Education:
M. Sc. in Political Economy, University of Konstanz
B. A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Queens's University of Belfast

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stefani

Research Interests:
- Auditing Experiments
- Behavioral Economics
- Game Theory
 

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Education: M. A. in Political Economy, University of Lucerne; B. A. in International Business Studies, Coventry University

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

- Economic Sanctions
- International Trade
- International Relations
- Political Economy
- Development

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Education: M.A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Selb

Research Interests:
- Age-related inequality in political participation
- Resulting inequalities in democratic representation
- Policy responsiveness to public opinion 
- Statistical modeling and causal inference

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Education:

M. Sc. in Mathematical Finance, University of Konstanz

B. Sc. in Mathematical Finance, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann

Research Interests:

• Machine Learning Algorithms for Time Series Data

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Education:
M. A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz
B. A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Horn

Research Interests:
- Comparative Public Policy
- Politics of Inequality
- Environmental Politics

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Education: 
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First Supervisor: Prof. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

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Education: M.Sc. (Dual Degree) in Economics, University of Konstanz & University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

First Supervisor:  Prof. Dr. Sebastian Findeisen

Research Interests:

• Technological Change and Inequality
• Labor Economics
• Economics of Education
• Quantitative Methods in Empirical Microeconomics

CV

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Education:
M. A. in Public Governance, University of Applied Science HTW Berlin
B. A. in Public Management, University of Applied Science HTW Berlin

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel

Research Interests:
- Public Governance
- Digital Competencies
- E-Government

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Education: M. Sc. in Social and Economic Data Analysis, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nils Weidmann

Research Interests:
- Machine learning
- Image analysis
- Social and political event analysis

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Education: M. Arts. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Constance, B. Arts in Politics and Public Administration, University of Constance

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Boerner

Research Interests:
-Female Leadership
-Motivation to lead
- Leadership Aspiration

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Education:

M. Sc. in mathematical finance at the University of Konstanz

B. Sc. in mathematical finance at the University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann

Research Interests:

• Time Series Analysis
• Forecasting

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Education: MSc in Political Economy, University of Konstanz; Bachelor in Economics, International Economics, Kyiv National Economic University

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

• Impact of Financial Crises on Political Polarization and Economic Inequality
• Social Conflict and Mobilization
• Political Economy of Sanctions

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Education: M.A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, B.A. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen

Research Interests:
- Decision-making and interinstitutional relations in the EU
- European Integration
- International relations and politics
- Legislative studies
- Quantitative methods and NLP

Responsibilities

Education: MA in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nils B. Weidmann

Research Interests:

• Comparative Politics in Authoritarian Regimes
• Impact of Information Technology
• Social Data Mining
• Quantitative Methods

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Education: M.Sc. & M.A. in European Affairs and Political Economy, Sciences po Paris & London School of Economics
B.A. in International Cultural and Business Studies, University of Passau

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marius Busemeyer

Research Interests:
- Comparative political economy
- Labour markets
- Welfare state research
- The political economy of technological change

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Education:
Master of Science in Economics, University of Konstanz
Bachelor of Commerce, University of Madras

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Hahn

Research Interests:
- Quantitative Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics

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Education: Master in Public Policy, Hertie School
Bachelor of Science-Education (with Majors in Economics, History, and Political Science), University of Wisconsin-Madison

First Supervisor:  Prof. Guido Schwerdt

Research Interests:

• Economic Inequality
• Public Policy
• Survey Experiments

CV

Responsibilities

Education:

M. Sc. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Constance

B. Sc. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Constance

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Boerner

Research Interests:

• Shared Leadership
• Informal Leadership
• Emergent Leadership
• Creativity and Innovation
• Stress & Resilience

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Education:

MA Public Policy, Political Economy and Development, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Central European University

BA Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Nils Weidmann

Research Interests:

• Comparative Politics in Authoritarian Regimes
• Subnational Regimes 
• Political Equality
• Regional Equality

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Education:

M. Sc. in Applied Psychology and Economic Behaviour, University of Bath

B. A. in International Business, SRH Hochschule Heidelberg

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

Research Interests:

• Experimental and Behavioural Economics
• Decision Sciences

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Education:
M. A. in Sociology, University of Mainz
B. A. in Sociology (Major) and Economics (Minor), University of Mainz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hinz

Research Interests:
- Influences on Environmental Attitudes
- Environmental and Social Inequalities
- International Research and Welfare States

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Education: n.n

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva Thomann

Research Interests:

• Cybersecurity Policy
• Public Governance
• Policy Evaluation

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Education:

M. Sc. in Conflict Resolution, University of Essex

LL.M. in International Law, University of Sussex

LL.B. in Law with Honours, Cardiff University

First Supervisor: Prof. Nils Weidmann

Research Interests:

• Political Psychology (perceptions/attitudes)
• Political Communication (online/offline)
• Computational Methods
• Comparative Politics

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Education:
M. A. in Speech and Language Processing, University of Konstanz
M. A. in General Linguistics, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt

Research Interests:
- Automated detection of frames in political discourses using NLP approaches
- Unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning approaches for detecting lexical, semantic and pragmatic cues for subtext and framing
- Word embeddings
 

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Education: M. Sc. in General Linguistics, University of Verona
B. Sc. in Foreign Languages and Cultures, University of Verona

First Supervisor: Prof. Miriam Butt

Research Interests:

-  Manual and automated detection of arguments in political discourses

-  Impact of different linguistic features on attracting political preferences among different strata of the population