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CDSS Alumna Mirka Henninger will join the Faculty of Psychology as Professor for Statistics and Data Science at the University of Basel from February 2024. Her research program comprises psychometric modeling, machine learning methods and the modeling of multilevel data. In these areas and their ...

Prof. Dr. Jens Förderer, Professor of Innovation and Digitalization at the Technical University of Munich's School of Management, Heilbronn Campus, was awarded the European Research Council Starting Grant for his project “Fair Competition in App Markets”. His research project, which he already ...

Congratulations to CDSE doctoral student Felix Rusche who has been awarded an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration by the Joachim Herz Foundation for his research in labor and development economics. The Fellowships are endowed with research ...

The GESS Awards commend outstanding research and teaching in the past academic year. It is with great pleasure that we announce this year's recipients. The award for Best Interdisciplinary Research Proposal goes to innovative projects and collaboration across different disciplines. The winners of ...

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 ...