Doctoral Students

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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:

M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University
B.Sc. in International Management at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

• (horizontal) Inequality
• Conflict Trap
• Effect of War and Conflict on Inequality
• Phoenix Factor

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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 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

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Education:

M. Sc. in Economics, University of Konstanz
Bachelor in Economics, Yildiz Technical Univerisity

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stefani

Research Interests:

• Accounting
• Auditing

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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. Sc. in Science-Intensive Technologies and Economics of Innovation, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
B. Sc. in Economics, Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Saint Petersburg, Russia

First Supervisor: Prof. Nick Zubanov, PhD

Research Interests:

• Human resource management
• Personnel economics
• Experimental economics

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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, Universitiy 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 

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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. 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 

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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

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, University of Siena
B.A. in International Affairs, American University of Science and Technology

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. Sc. in Economics, University of Bonn
Bachelor of Economics, major in Finance, Zhengzhou University

First Supervisor: Prof. Susanne Goldlücke

Research Interests:

• Game Theory, Contract Theory, Mechanism Design
• Behavioral Economics

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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. 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: 
M. Sc. in Political Science, Stockholm University - MA in Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
BA in Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

First Supervisor: Prof. Gerald Schneider

Research Interests:

• Welfare state research
• Bureaucratic discrimination

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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

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

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: MA/M.Sc.

First Supervisor: Prof. 

Research Interests:

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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

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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

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Education:

M. Sc. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz
B. Sc. in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

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:

MA in Political Science, University of Vienna
BA in Political Science, University of Vienna
BEd in German/Geography and Economics, University of Vienna

First Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Horn

Research Interests:

• Economic Inequality
• Political Parties and Party Competition
• Comparative Political Economy
• (Automated) Text Analysis

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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