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CDSE Alumna Prof. Dr. Pia Pinger, Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne is awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her research project “OPPORTUNITY”. The project investigates whether and, if so, why people from different ...

Congratulations to Professor Thomas Gschwend who took over the position of GESS Dean of Graduate Studies in addition to his position as Academic Director of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS), which he holds since the 2019 spring term. Furthermore, the GESS ...

CDSB alumnus Dr. Jens Förderer who holds his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Mannheim, has been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Innovation and Digitalization at the School of Management at Technical University of Munich. Jens, who has won several ...

Starting in September 2023 CDSB alumna Dr. Patricia Breuer will take a position as Assistant Professor for Accounting, Auditing and Control at the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Patricia successfully defended her thesis in July 2023 at the Center for Doctoral Studies ...

Women in the Bundestag speak more often and more emotionally than men about issues that particularly affect women – because they are more interested in them than their male colleagues. This is the result of a recent study by Oliver Rittmann, CDSS doctoral student at the Department of Political ...

Dr. Andreas Bayerl, a CDSB graduate who completed his doctorate in 2022 at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim, will join the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2023. After obtaining his ...

Jan Menzner et al. received the 1st prize of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for their article 'The Potential of Open Lists for the Election of Women to the German Bundestag. Results of a Survey Experiment' Using a conjoint survey experiment, the paper demonstrates the potential of open party lists ...

Political scientist Emmy Lindstam has been honoured with the Lorenz-von-Stein Award for her outstanding dissertation “Excluded from the Nation? Hierarchies of Belonging and Political Aspirations among Marginalized Groups.” She defended her dissertation in July 2022 and has since taken up a position ...

CDSB alumnus Dr. Clemens Müller, who earned his doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim, has recently been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Erasmus School of Economics. His research centers on labor, innovation, and finance, and he is excited to take on the role of ...

The newest issue of the FORUM is out now, featuring ten of our fantastic doctoral candidates from Business Studies (CDSB), Economics (CDSE), Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology (CDSS). Make sure to pick up your copy to discover more about their work! You can also access the newest edition ...