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Keusch, a professor of Social Data Science and Methodology at the University of Mannheim, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). His term of office began on 1 July 2026 and will last five years.

Since 1 April, the professor of Sociology and Societal Comparisons and former director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) has been a member of the independent, interdisciplinary body that provides research-based policy advice.

Mannheim psychologist Professor Olga Stavrova and her colleagues have investigated how supporters of winning or losing parties experience election results and what changes in well-being and personality can be observed until up to four months later.

The professor of Sociology, Societal Comparisons at the University of Mannheim and former Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) has won the Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg 2026 (research award of the Land of Baden-Württemberg 2026).

Extremist or fundamentalist attitudes threaten democracies and peaceful coexistence. For the first time, a large-scale, systematic, and cross-national study paints a comprehensive picture.

A new study by the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” at the University of Konstanz with contributions of management professor Dr. Max Reinwald of the University of Mannheim examines the impact of right-wing populist election results on the well-being and integration of trainees with ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the integration of a Russian refugee researcher into the research group “Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure (RISS)” for three years. For security reasons she wishes to remain anonymous. Professor Richard Traunmüller, political ...