Professors and Junior Professors
You can find here detailed information about our (junior-)professors and their working groups.
Social Data Science
Room: D338
Phone: +49 7531 88 4892
Mail: david.garcia@uni-konstanz.de
Research Interests:
Computational social science, social media data analysis, collective emotions, polarization, privacy, misinformation, agent-based modelling
Elections and Democracy
Office: C 306a, P.O. Box: 92
Phone: +49 7531 88 4771
E-Mail: Michael.Herrmann [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Strategic voting and its consequences in Germany and western democracies; Psychology of voting; Elite behavior and leader selection; Political competition; Effects of electoral rules; Representation and democratic satisfaction; Statistical inference; Experiments; Case studies
Political Behavior
Office D306, P.O. Box 85
Phone: +49 7531 88 2069
E-Mail: lukas.rudolph@uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
public opinion, preference formation, voting behavior, electoral institutions, environmental politics, survey experiments and causal inference
Survey Research
Office: D335 , P.O. Box: 85
Phone: +49 7531 88 2321
E-Mail: Peter.Selb [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Public opinion surveys, elections, direct democracy
Political Methodology
Office: Y 316, P.O. Box: 92
Phone: +49 7531 88 3679
E-Mail: Susumu.Shikano [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Decision theory, Bayesian statistics, experiments, computer-based simulations
Computational Social Science and Data Science
Room: D334, P.O. Box: 85
Phone: +49 7531 88 2150
E-Mail: termeh.shafie@uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
social network analysis, multivariate statistics, computational social science, network models, information theory
Comparative Politics
Office: D 313, P.O. Box: 84
Phone: +49 7531 88 3293
E-Mail: Christian.Breunig [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Representation and public policy in advanced democracies, comparative political economy, political methodology
Comparative Political Economy
Office: Y 206, P.O. Box: 79
Phone: +49 7531 88 2860
E-Mail: Marius.Busemeyer [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research Interests:
Education, social and labour market policy; international comparative welfare state research; capitalism research; public opinion regarding education and social reforms; social inequality.
Interim Professor for Policy-Analysis
Room D 237, P.O. Box 79
Tel.: +49 7531 88-3617
Research interests:
Comparative Educational Policies, Comparative University Policies, EU Policy Making, US Politics, Lobbying, Transformation Processes in Central and Eastern Europe, Home and Foreign Policies of the Countries of the Caucasus Region
Comparative Social Policy
Room D 238, Postbox 79
Phone: + 49 7531 88 2713
E-Mail: Sharon.baute@uni-konstanz.de
Research Interests:
Social policy, European integration, public opinion, Euroscepticism, social science research methods
Empirical and Normative Democratic Theory
Office: C 308, P.O. Box: 92
Phone: +49 7531 88 4592
E-Mail: Sven.Jochem [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Politics of the financial crisis in Europe, Social and Employment Policies in Germany and Scandinavia, Politics, Economy and Society in Scandinavia, Defects of Contemporary Democracies – Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Political Theory
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Aurélia Bardon
Room D 329, P.O. Box 81
Phone: (+49)7531/88-2246
E-Mail: aurelia.bardon [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Analytical political philosophy; Religion and political theory; Public reason & public justification; Secularism; Liberalism; Morality and religious pluralism; Reasonable disagreements; Liberal neutrality; Bioethics
German Politics
Prof. Dr. Christina Zuber
Office: D 221, P.O. Box: 89
Phone: 07531/88-3374
E-Mail: Christina.Zuber [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Parties and representation, federalism and regionalism, migration and integration policy
Political Science, especially International Politics
Office: D 240, P.O. Box: 83
Phone.: +49 7531 88 2924
E-Mail: Dirk.Leuffen [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
European Union, regional integration, German foreign politics
Development Research
Office: D 233, Postfach 86
Phone: + 49 7531 88 2608
E-Mail: Anke.Hoeffler [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Conflict and development research, political and interpersonal violence, social causes of excess morbidity and mortality
International Politics - Global Inequality
Room: Y 306, Post Box: 94
Phone: +49 07531 88 3078
Email: gabriele.spilker@uni-konstanz.de
Research Interests:
Factors influencing and impact of inequality, impact of climate change on migration and conflict, impact and perception of globalisation processes
International Politics
Office: D 233, P.O. Box: 86
Phone: +49 7531 88 2608
E-Mail: Gerald.Schneider [at] uni-konstanz de
Research interests:
European Union (especially European Council, Council of Ministers, and European Monetary Union); politics and financial markets; prediction of political events; causes and consequences of political violence; Globalization; terrorism; diversity and political violence; mediation and other forms of conflict management
International Politics and Conflict Research
Office: C532, P.O. Box: 90
Phone: +49 7351-88 2811
E-mail: nina.uexkull@uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Causes, dynamics and impacts of armed conflict, security implications of climate change, climate and energy policies, armed conflict and development.
Interim Professor for International Politics and Conflict Research
Room: C 532, Post box: 90
Phone: +49 07531 88-2811
E-Mail: tim.wegenast@uni-konstanz.de
Research Interests:
Research on development, natural resource governance, intrastate violence, food security, climate change adaptation
Comparative Politics of Non-democratic States
Office: D 341, P.O. Box: 84
Phone: +49 7531 88 5676
E-Mail: Nils.Weidmann [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Civil wars, ethnic conflicts, modern communication technologies, mobilization and protest in autocratic systems, democratization, computer-based simulations, spatial data-analysis
Organizational Behavior
Office: D 317, P.O. Box: 88
Phone: +49 7531 88 3058
E-Mail: Sabine.Boerner [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Personnel management, cooperation and communication in organisational groups, leadership, cooperation and performance in cultural organisations, diversity
Future of Work Lab Konstanz
Office: D235, P.O. Box: 87
Phone: +49 7531 88 2355
E-Mail: Florian.Kunze [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Demographic change in organisations; age identities; age stereotypes and discrimination; diversity research in teams and organisations; faultline research; effective leadership for individuals, teams, and organizations; evidence-based human resource management; quantitative methods for management research; multilevel analysis; structural equation modelling
Public Administration and Digital Governance
Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel
Office: D 234, P.O. Box 93
Phone: +49 7531 88 3553
E-Mail: ines.mergel [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Digital transformation of public sector organizations; Agile governance
Public Administration
Room D 333, P.O. Box 81
Phone: +49 7531/88-2318
E-Mail: eva.thomann [at] uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Policy implementation, Europeanization, street-level bureaucracy, multi-level governance, regulation, comparative policy and administrative research, qualitative comparative and set-theoretic research methods.
Public Administration & Management
Office: D224, P.O. Box: 81
Phone: +49 7531 88 4828
E-Mail: julio.zambrano@uni-konstanz.de
Research interests:
Strategic planning, performance management, public sector innovation, collaborative governance, organizational performance, channels of participatory democracy, intersectionality