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For his first-class dissertation entitled ‘Robust and Replicable, but also Inexplicable? Articulation Dynamics and their Effects on (Evaluative) Judgments’, CDSS Alumnus Moritz Ingendahl was honoured with this year's Heinz Heckhausen Prize of the German Psychological Society (DGP). In his doctoral ...

Tilko Swalve joins Leiden University as Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. His research interests lie in the interactions between politics and law, with a focus on the role of courts in the political process and the behavior of ...

Thibault Cézanne, doctoral candidate at the CDSE and ZEW researcher, was awarded the 11th SUERF I UniCredit Foundation Research Prize for his contribution in the workshop 'AI in Banking and Finance'. Alongside Dr. Frank Brueckbauer (ZEW), he co-authored the paper “Bank Manager Sentiment, Excessive ...

Last year in May Marc Philipp succesfully defended his thesis and has now taken up the  ‘Tenure-Track Professorship for Teaching and Learning Psychology with a focus on Educational Design and Educational Effectiveness’ at the Karlsruhe University of Education on 1 September 2024. He'll remain ...

CDSS Alumnus Oliver Rittmann has joined the MZES as a Lorenz-von-Stein Fellow in Research Department B in July 2024. His research interests include inequalities in the political representation of different societal groups, political discrimination, and non-verbal elements of political communication. ...

Dr. Patricia Breuer, a CDSB alumna, has been awarded the Karin-Islinger-Award for her exceptional dissertation on financial and non-financial transparency regulation. This award is presented by the Karin-Islinger-Foundation to recognize outstanding scientific research in economics and related fields ...

The Psychonomic Society presents the J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award to graduate students who are members of the society coming from underrepresented populations. Recipients must be the first author and presenter of a poster submitted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic ...

Members of Parliament (MPs) in multi-level systems respond stronger to protests in their own state than to protests in other states – and state-level MPs are more responsive than federal-level MPs. This is the result of a recent study by Noam Himmelrath, CDSS doctoral student at the Department of ...

From Paris to Milan – Dr. Maximilian Beichert, who is currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow at HEC Paris, will be joining Bocconi University as Assistant Professor of Marketing this coming September. In his multi-method research projects, Maximilian focuses on social influence in user-generated ...

The EU parliamentary elections will take place from 6 to 9 June. The EU&I app is designed to help people compare their own positions with the parties running in the European elections. Two doctoral students from the University of Mannheim were involved in the development of the EU-wide app.