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Federal Republic of Germany, Land Berlin

 

Board of Trustees

Chair:
Ulrich Schüller
Deputy Chair:
Dr. Jutta Koch-Unterseher

 

Advisory Board

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Christine Landfried

 

Academic Council

Chair:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger Ph.D
Spokesperson:
Dr. Christian Basteck

 


 

 

Management

President
Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger Ph.D.
Managing Director
Ursula Noack

 

Dynamics of Social Inequalities

Research Unit
Skill Formation and Labor Markets

Director

Prof. Dr. Heike Solga
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
Varieties of reproduction regimes: institutions, norms and social inequality

Head

Dr. Hannah Zagel
Research Group
Work and Care

Head

Prof. Lena Hipp, Ph.D.
Research Group
Effort and Social Inequality

Head

Prof. Dr. Jonas Radl
Research Group
Health and Social Inequality

Head

Prof. Dr. Jan Paul Heisig
Research Group
National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning

Head

Prof. Dr. Martin Ehlert
Research Professorship
Inequality and Social Policy

Research Professor

Prof. David Brady, Ph.D.
Research Professorship
Transitions to Adulthood

Research Professor

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schoon
 

Markets and Choice

Research Unit
Economics of Change

Director

Prof. Dr. Steffen Huck
Research Unit
Market Behavior

Director

Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler
Research Group
Ethics and Behavioral Economics

Head

Dr. Agne Kajackaite
Research Professorship
Collective Decision Making

Research Professor

Prof. Thomas R. Palfrey, Ph.D.
Research Professorship
Intergenerational Social Learning

Research Professors

Prof. Guillaume Frechette, Ph.D.
Prof. Andrew Schotter, Ph.D.
 

Digitalization and Societal Transformation

Research Group
Digital Mobility and Social Differentiation

Heads

Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie
Dr. habil. Weert Canzler
Research Group
Globalization, Work, and Production

Heads

Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Research Group
Politics of Digitalization

Head

Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
 

International Politics and Law

Research Unit
Global Governance

Director

Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Research Group
Global Humanitarian Medicine

Head

Dr. Tine Hanrieder
Research Group
Governance for Global Health

Head

Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter
Research Professorship
Global Politics

Research Professors

Prof. Peter Katzenstein, Ph.D.
Research Professorship
Global Public Law

Research Professors

Prof. Mattias Kumm, S.J.D. (Harvard)
Research Professorship
Global Sociology

Research Professor

Prof. Yasemin Soysal, Ph.D.
Research Professorship
Political Theory

Research Professor

Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst
Research Professorship
Theory, History and Future of Democracy

Research Professor

Prof. John Keane
 

Dynamics of Political Systems

Research Unit
Democracy and Democratization

Acting Director

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels
Research Unit
Transformations of Democracy

Director

Prof. Daniel Ziblatt, Ph.D.
 

Migration and Diversity

Research Unit
Migration, Integration, Transnationalization

Director

Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Research Group
International Citizenship Law

Head

Prof. Liav Orgad
 

Political Economy of Development

Research Unit
Institutions and Political Inequality

Director

Prof. Macartan Humphreys, Ph.D.
Research Professorship
Political Inequality and South-South Migration

Research Professor

Prof. Kimuli Kasara, Ph.D.
 

President's Research Group

President's Research Group

Head

Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.
Presidential Department

President

Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.
 

Trans-sectoral Research

Research Unit
KonsortSWD - Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Sciences / National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

Acting Head

Thomas Runge
Bridging Project
"Suspended in a dead-end street?": Social Participation and Climate Change
Bridging Project
Experimenting with Causality
Bridging Project
Meritocratic beliefs, motivated reasoning and goal dis-/engagement: University admissions as a natural experiment

Heads

Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler
Prof. Dr. Heike Solga
Dr. Claudia Finger
Bridging Project
School-to-Work Transition of SEN Students
Center for Global Constitutionalism

Managing Head

Prof. Mattias Kumm, S.J.D. (Harvard)
Internal Services

Heads

Thomas Schuh
Doctoral Program
"Good Work in a Transformative World"

Head

Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.
Center for Civil Society Research

Founding Director

Prof. Dr. Edgar Grande
 

Research Managers

Research Area Dyamics of Social Inequalities:
Dr. Anna Fenner
Research Area Markets and Choice:
Babette Hagemann
Research Area Digitalization and Societal Transformation:
Samantha Gupta
Research Area International Politics and Law:
Editha von Colberg
Research Area Dynamics of Political Systems:
Dr. Elisabeth Gößwein
Research Area Migration and Diversity:
Dr. Wilma Rethage
Research Area Political Economy of Development:
Dr. Wilma Rethage
Academic Service:
Babette Hagemann
Presidential Department:
Thomas Crowe

 

Presidential Department

Dr. Martin Mann

 

Department of Communications

Dr. Harald Wilkoszewski

 

Boards

Jana Girlich

 

Academic Service

Research Information
Mathis Fräßdorf, Ph.D.

IT Coordination
Peter Rindfuß

 

Administration

Personnel and Legal Matters:
Frank Ottens
Finance Services:
Dr. Frank Zuther
Purchasing and Building Administration:
Nicole Griepentrog
Internal Services:
Thomas Schuh

 

Works Council

Chair:
Udo Borchert

 

Equal Opportunity Commissioner

Katarina Pollner

Ombudsperson

Prof. Ariane Berthoin Antal

Data Protection Commissioner

Patrick J. Droß

Representative for Disabled Employees

Ralf Künster

Security Commissioner

Thorsten Blunk

Contact person for the prevention of corruption

Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert

Liaison Officer for Substance Abuse Problems

Gabriele Kammerer

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