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Faculty Members


Harald Fuhr (Spokesperson)

Professor Harald Fuhr

Professor of International Politics

hfuhr@uni-potsdam.de

Research Profile:

  • Environmental Policy
  • International Politics and Development
  • Public Policy in Developing Countries
Professor Harald Fuhr

Isabella Proeller (Deputy Spokesperson)

Isabella Proeller

Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management

proeller@uni-potsdam.de

Research profile:

  • Strategic and Performance Management in the Public Sector
  • International Public Management Reform
Isabella Proeller

Maja Apelt

Maja Apelt

Professor of Organizational and Administrative Sociology II

maja.apeltuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Organizational Sociology
  • Military Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Organizational Analysis and Organizational Theory
  • Military Administrations
Maja Apelt

Falk Daviter

Falk Daviter

Junior Professor of Administration and Policy

daviteruni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Policy Analysis
  • Public Administration
  • EU Politics
  • Biotechnology Regulation
Falk Daviter

Thomas Edeling

Thomas Edeling

Professor Emeritus of Organizational and Administrative Sociology

edelinguni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Organizational Analysis and Organizational Theory
  • Public Enterprises
Thomas Edeling

Steffen Ganghof

Steffen Ganghof

Professor of Comparative Politics

ganghofuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Comparative Government and Public Policy
  • Democratic Theory
  • Tax Policy
Steffen Ganghof

Klaus H. Goetz


Norbert Gronau

Norbert Gronau

Professor of Business Information Systems and Electronic Government

norbert.gronauwi.uni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Changeability of Architectures and Processes
  • Knowledge Management
  • Critical Infrastructures
  • Electronic Government
Norbert Gronau

Moreen Heine

Moreen Heine

Junior Professor of Business Informatics

moreen.heinewi.uni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Electronic government
  • E-government transfer
  • Usability of e-government solutions
  • Changeability of e-government architectures
  • Critical infrastructures
Moreen Heine

Maik Heinemann

Maik Heinemann

Professor of Economic Growth, Integration and Sustainable Development (Dean of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences)

maik.heinemannuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Theory of Growth and Distribution
  • Monetary Theory and Policy
  • Imperfections in the Capital Market
Maik Heinemann

Katharina Hölzle

Katharina Hoelzle

Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

katharina.hoelzleime.uni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Leadership and Organisation for Innovation
  • Open Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship
Katharina Hoelzle

Werner Jann

Werner Jann

Professor of Political Science, Administration and Organization

jannuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Comparative Public Administration
  • Administrative Theory
  • Ministries, Agencies
Werner Jann

Eric Kearney

Professor of Leadership, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management

kearneyuni-potsdamde

Research Profile:

  • Effects of leadership, team composition, and team processes on team performance
  • Synergistic teamwork in diverse teams
  • Leadership in organizations

Kristine Kern

Kristine Kern

Professor of Governance of Urban Infrastructure and Global Change

kristine.kernirs-netde

Research profile:

  • Governance of Multi-Level Systems
  • EU Studies
  • (Regional) Environmental Governance
  • Sustainable Cities and Regions
  • Marine Governance
  • EU Macro-Regional Strategies
  • Risk Governance & Governance of Disasters
Kristine Kern

Ulrich Kohler

Ulrich Kohler

Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research

ulrich.kohleruni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Social Inequality
  • Political Participation of Lower Classes
  • Electoral Behaviour
Ulrich Kohler

Valeska P. Korff

Valeska Korff

Junior Professor of Methods of Organisation and Administration Research

vkorffuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Institutions and Institutionalization
  • Analysis of Organizational Fields
  • Nonprofit Organizations
Valeska Korff

Sabine Kuhlmann

Sabine Kuhlmann

Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organisation

sabine.kuhlmann@​uni-potsdam.de

Research profile:

  • Comparative Public Administration
  • Public-Sector-Reforms
  • Evaluation
  • Better Regulation
  • Local Government
Sabine Kuhlmann

Andrea Liese

Andrea Liese

Professor of International Organizations and Public Policy

alieseuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • International Organizations and Institutions
  • Public-Private Partnerships
Andrea Liese

Arndt Sorge

Arndt Sorge

Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management

arndt.sorgewzbeu

Research profile:

  • Organizational Theory and Management
  • International Management and Organization
Arndt Sorge

Detlef Sprinz

Detlef Sprinz

Professor, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

dsp@pik-potsdam.de

Research profile:

  • Modeling credible commitment to long-term policy (in general) and groundswell approaches (e.g., climate change)
  • policy effectiveness in the environmental field (national, European, global)
  • compensation for environmental damages, incl. attribution problems and legal architecture
  • coalition formation (employing agent-based models)
  • choice of level of optimal regulation in environmental policy
  • modeling environmental transitions, incl. attribution of policy effects over time
Detlef Sprinz

Dieter Wagner

Dieter Wagner

Professor Emeritus of Organization and Personnel Management

wagner@​uni-potsdam.de

Research profile:

  • Public Enterprises and Administrations
  • Diversity Management
  • Organizational Analysis
  • Private and Public Management
  • HR-Management
  • University-Spin-offs
Dieter Wagner

Theresa Wobbe

Theresa Wobbe
Photo: Ekko von Schwichow

Professor of Sociology of Gender

theresa.wobbeuni-potsdamde

Research profile:

  • Institutional Gender Analysis
  • Gender Policy Analysis
Theresa Wobbe
Photo: Ekko von Schwichow