Springe direkt zu Inhalt

Social Policy

Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Comparative Politics and Policy of Germany and France

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • European social and internal market policy
  • Comparison of political policy in France and Germany
  • Implementation of EU policies
  • European Commission and European Court of Justice

Dr. Jan Paul Heisig
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology

Areas of Expertise

  • 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

Ph.D. Christoph Nguyen

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Chair of German Politics

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • social inequality
  • voting behavior
  • social policy

Dr. Julia Püschel
Professor of Economics

School of Business & Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics

Lansstraße 5, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of foreign trade
  • Economics of the labor market
  • Economic inequalities
  • History of ideas in economics

Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch

Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law

Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

Areas of Expertise

  • 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

Dr. Barbara Riedmüller
Professor of Social Policy

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Social Policy and Comparative Studies

Marienbader Straße 13, 14199 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparison of European welfare states
  • Labor market
  • Social policy
  • Development of social security
  • Pension reform
  • Gender inequality in the social and labor market
  • Diversity
  • Poverty

Dr. Johanna Schnabel

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Research Unit Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Interviews are also possible in French

Areas of Expertise

  • Federalism (Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, USA, Belgium)
  • Cooperation between federal and state governments
  • Education policy
  • Fiscal policy
  • Corona pandemic

Dr. Mihai Varga

Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

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