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Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law

Department of Law
Public Law

Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • International law
  • Human rights
  • German and foreign constitutional law

Dr. Endre Borbáth

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology

Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

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Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian

Areas of Expertise

  • Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
  • Programmatic structure
  • Economic crises
  • East/West differences
  • Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
  • Elections
  • Democracy
  • Conflict structures

Dr. Nils Diederich
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Empirical Political Sociology / Otto Stammer Center

Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Domestic policy
  • Electoral studies
  • Political parties
  • Interest groups
  • Motivation of first-time voters and non-voters
  • Political system
  • Social inequality

Dr. Martin Emmer
Professor of Communication Studies

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies
Media Use

Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Media use
  • Use of online media, social media, etc.
  • Computer mediated communication (CMC - Internet/online media/web 2.0)
  • Media shift
  • Political online communication
  • Political media effects
  • Campaigns and election campaigns, particularly regarding the use of Internet/online media
  • Survey research
  • Quantitative media research
  • Media and communication in Africa and developing countries

Dr. Thorsten Faas
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Political Sociology of the Federal Republic of Germany

Ihnestr.21, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Election research
  • Election campaigns
  • Political communication
  • Political parties
  • Elections

Sebastian Hoppe

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
  • politics and economy in the Russian Far East
  • Russian-Chinese relations
  • regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine

Dr. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology

Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social movements
  • Protest
  • Political parties
  • Right-wing populism
  • Civil society
  • Europe

Dr. Gero Neugebauer
Professor of Political Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Empirical Political Sociology

Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • German political parties and party systems before and after 1990, especially the SPD and the Left
  • Elections
  • Voting behavior
  • Political system of Germany, including GDR

Ph.D. Christoph Nguyen

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Chair of German Politics

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • social inequality
  • voting behavior
  • social policy

Dr. Paul Nolte
Professor of Modern History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Modern History

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Contemporary German history
  • German society and politics in historical and contemporary dimensions
  • Democracy, past and present
  • Transformation of the political party system, elections, and social milieus

Dr. Ulrich Rendtel
Professor of Statistics and Econometrics

School of Business and Economics
Statistics and Econometrics

Garystraße 21, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Surveys
  • Missing values
  • Nonresponse
  • Panel surveys
  • Microcensus
  • Statistical consulting
  • Zensus 2011

Dr. Julia Reuschenbach

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Center for Political Sociology of Germany

Ihnestraße 21, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Election and party research
  • Political communication and political culture
  • German contemporary history after 1945
  • politics of history and culture of memory
  • political science teaching at universities

Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of the labor market 
  • Political economics 
  • Economics of migration
  • Integration and migration
  • U.S. economic policy 

Dr. Joachim Trebbe
Professor of Media Analysis

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division of Media Analysis / Research Methods

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • The use of media and its effects (campaigns, advertising, change of attitude)
  • Media content (television, Internet, press): program structures, media mechanisms, news selection, celebrity reporting
  • Media, political communication, election campaigns, scandals
  • The media and migration (the use of media by immigrants; representation of immigrants in the media)
  • Religion in the media

Dr. Jochen Töpfer

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
  • Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
  • Privatization
  • Informality and neo-feudalism
  • Parties and political elites
  • Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
  • Religion and society
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and conflict