Supervision - Bachelor, Master & Dissertation
Here, you can find a selection of research topics and fields covered at my professorship as inspiration for your bachelor's or master's theses, as well as for your Ph.D. dissertations. If you are interested in one of these topics, please do not hesitate to contact my team or me.
At my professorship, we work on questions of sustainable-oriented policy making in education, research, innovation, digital, finance, economic, social, energy, and environmental policy from a comparative perspective (municipal, national, and international level). A key focus is on comparing political regimes (democracies and autocracies), party competition, and the development of new policy instruments.
Governance and policy performance from a comparative perspective
Selection of topics: Sustainability policy in an (inter)national comparison; Use of sustainability instruments; Sustainability funds; Trust and sustainability; Energy transition and renewable energies in Germany and Europe; University governance in a European comparison; Governance of future technologies; Research policy implications of genetic engineering developments; Mission orientation and innovation clusters; Themes, instruments and framing of artificial intelligence in national strategies; Digital strategies in comparison; Representation and responsiveness in the governmental action of the federal states; Implementation of political promises in the comparison of federal states; Policy performance in the comparison of federal states; Government balance sheet in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg; Agenda 21 processes in German municipalities.
Comparison of democratic and autocratic regimes
Selection of topics: Sustainability and regime type; Legitimation strategies of autocratic regimes.
Party competition at the national and international levels
Selection of topics: Party positions on sustainability in a state comparison; Energy transition and populism; Parties' positions on digital policy in the German multilevel system; Parties and digitization in Europe; Sustainability narratives of parties; Topics and negotiation processes in the field of education for the digital society.
Sustainability at TUM, through TUM and for TUM
Selection of topics: Conception and construction of teaching modules around the topic of sustainability and education for sustainable development at TUM; Sustainability performance measurement at the university level.