Supervision - Bachelor, Master & Dissertation

Here, you can find a selection of research topics and fields covered at my professorship as inspiration for your bachelor or master theses as well as for your Ph.D. dissertations. If you are interested in one of these topics, please, do not hesitate to contact me or my team.

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). An important focus is on the comparison of political regimes (democracies and autocracies), party competition, as well as new forms of 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 national and international level

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 university level