Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian

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

• Soccer
• Culture-specific differences in soccer
• Role of the referee
• Sociology of sport
• Soccer fans
• Olympia
• Historical anthropology
• Linguistic theory
• Philosophy of language
• Social philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Anthropology of language
• Theories of practice
• Philosophy of movement
• Languages of emotion

• Cultural similarities and differences between EU member states and candidate states
• Cultural sociology
• Public sociology

• Protest and social movements
• Civil society
• Radicalization and political violence
• Human rights violations and state violence
• Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
• North Africa
• Near/Middle East
• Democratization and social transformation
• Arab Spring
• Islamism
• Muslim Brotherhood
• Research ethics
• Safe field research
• Research conditions in authoritarian contexts

• Links between social and health inequality, including consequences of the coronavirus pandemic
• Healthy aging
• Discrimination and inequalities in health care
• Data infrastructures for research on social-health inequalities and pandemic emergencies

• 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

Interviews are also possible in French.

• Housing policy
• Housing market
• Insurance market
• Finance

• Medical sociology
• Demographic change and implications for the development of the health care system
• Health care and nursing care for the elderly / nursing care research
• Gender comparison of aging and health
• Health promotion in old age
• Familial support in old age / family members as caregivers
• Professionalization
• Health professions and nursing: academization and career opportunities

• Public service broadcasting
• Transformation processes of digitalization
• Structural change of the public sphere
• New forms of the public sphere
• Journalism
• News journalism
• Television news
• crisis and conflict reporting
• cultural transformation
• Media change
• Innovative forms of journalism
• Interpretative methods of social research
• Ethnography

• Social movements
• Social inequalities
• Rural sociology
• Food studies
• Gender and feminism

• Online therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder
• Socioeconomic status and mental health
• Publication bias in psychotherapy research
• Interdisciplinary research (sociology and psychology)
• Open Science

• Japan
• Globalization
• Food studies
• Global agri-food system
• Food safety
• Rural Japan
• (Local) identities
• Rural revitalization

Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

• Private international law
• International civil procedure
• Harmonization of European private law
• Corporate law
• Social theory in business/corporate law
• Anti-Semitism in private law
• Feminist theory and private law

• 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

• Unconditional basic income
• Panel surveys and longitudinal data

• 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

• Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
• Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe

• Emotions
• Social inequality
• Identity
• Economic sociology
• Values and standards

• Anthropology: humans as natural and cultural beings (social by nature)
• Management of individual action goals (desire for autonomy) in groups
• Familiar vs. foreign: problems of integration within and between groups (xenophobia)
• Dominance hierarchies and the dynamics of power, performance, and social motivation (craving for recognition)
• Human-environment relationships; people and media; new media
• Stress and overload: conditions, symptoms, stress regulation
• Disasters; threatening and extreme situations; trauma
• Dismay effects
• Physical-psychological interactions; mind-body relationship; nature and culture
• Moods and seasonal rhythms: conditions, hormonal and psychosocial aspects (biopsychology, biometeorology)
• Weather, climate, geographical regions, and psyche: Mediterranean vs. northern regions
• Sports psychological problems
• Adventurousness, risk-taking behavior
• Sex and gender: bio-psycho-social aspects of complementarity between men and women
• Emotional aspects of development and lifespan: children and parents, teens, adults, seniors
• Methodical, scientific, and epistemological problems in the human sciences