Pool of experts

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At the University of Erfurt, experts conduct research and teach on a wide range of socially relevant topics. They are happy to make their expertise available to journalists and press representatives as interview and discussion partners. The Office of University Communications uses its pool of experts to help in the search for suitable experts and is happy to establish contact.

 

Subject areas

current: Energy Crisis and Energy Policy

Professor Andreas Goldthau |Franz Haniel Professor of Political Science | Willy Brandt School of Public Policy

You can also find current scientific contributions on the topic on our research blog "WortMelder".

current: Planetary Health

You can also find current scientific contributions on the topic on our research blog "WortMelder".

Further subject areas

Professor Notker Baumann (Early Church History, Patrology and Christian Archaeology)

  • church and its history in the first six centuries

Professor Patrick Becker (Fundamental Theology and Religious Studies)

  • religious fundamentalism and nationalism
  • the expression of (religious) world views in the modern age
  • the dialogue between science and theology
  • globalisation
  • concepts of the afterlife

Dr Hendrikje Carius (Study Centre Protestantism of the Research Library Gotha)

  • Protestantism

Professor Andreas Gotzmann (Jewish Studies) 

  • Jewish history and culture
  • general questions of social debates about Jews and Judaism

Professor Kai Hafez (Communication Science with Focus on Comparative Analysis of Media Systems / Communication Cultures)

  • Islam, islamophobia
  • Islam and media
  • muslims in Germany
  • immigration, refugees
  • Middle East/North Africa, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Iran

Professor Michael Haspel (Systematic Theology)

  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • peace ethics
  • chruch and right-wing populism

Professor Julia Knop (Dogmatics)

  • synodal path
  • question of god in the present
  • ecumenical theology
  • forms of thought and paradigms in theology
  • religion and gender
  • religiously motivated discrimination

Dr Dominique-Marcel Kosack (Theology)

  • evangelical Christianity
  • pentecostal churches, the charismatic movement, ‘lifestyle churches’
  • free churches
  • Christian preaching oriented towards popular culture
  • Christianity and climate change

Professor Benedikt Kranemann (Liturgical Science)

  • liturgy
  • rituals: services (past / present), religious and non-religious rituals, festivals, church building
  • funeral ceremonies after disasters

Professor Andreas Lindner (Church History / Systematic Theology)

  • church
  • history of theology from its beginnings to 1945 with a special focus on the history of the reformation
  • church and theological history of the early modern period

Professor Elke Mack (Christian Social Science and Social Ethics)

  • legal ethics
  • ethics of migration
  • social ethics

Professor Vasilios N. Makrides (Religious Studies with Focus on Orthodox Christianity)

  • orthodox Christianity / religion in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
  • religious East-West relations in Europe
  • byzantine and greek Orthodoxy
  • orthodox Christians in the West and in the diaspora
  • orthodox Christianity and Islam

Professor Jörg Rüpke (Comparative Religious Studies)

  • ancient religion
  • ritual
  • calendars
  • religion and violence

Professor Myriam Wijlens (Canon Law)

  • ecumenism
  • canon law
  • (catholic) marriage and family
  • sacrament funeral
  • reform of the catholic church
  • structure of the church
  • decision-making processes in the church
  • papacy, bishopric

Professor Andreas Anter (Political Education)

  • constitutional policy and legal foundations of the political system
  • internal security
  • elections (EU, Bundestag, state parliament elections)
  • parties,
  • federal-state issues (federalism)
  • education policy
  • political education
  • charisma in politics
  • power and questions of power in politics
  • Max Weber (work and person)

Dr Hasnain Bokhari (Public Policy)

  • gigitisation, e-government and Artificial Intelligence

Professor André Brodocz (Political Theory)

  • elections (EU, Bundestag, state parliament elections)
  • constitutional crises (Germany, Europe, USA)
  • constitutional conflicts (Germany, Europe, USA)

Professor Andreas Goldthau (Franz Haniel Professor of Political Science)

  • global energy transition / energy turnaround & EU "Green Deal"
  • climate policy (Paris Agreement, climate justice, ...)
  • EU energy security (Russian gas, green hydrogen, etc.)
  • international energy markets (oil, OPEC, ...)

adjunct Professor Michael Haspel (Systematic Theology, Martin Luther Institute)

  • peace and security

Professor Sophia Hoffmann (International Politics and Conflict Research)

  • international politics
  • international security policy
  • foreign policy
  • secret services/intelligence services, including the BND and BfV
  • international refugee policy
  • international relations in the Middle East region
  • humanitarian aid and development policy

Professor Achim Kemmerling (Professor of Public Policy and International Development at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy/ Faculty of Political Science)

  • Latin American politics (especially Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay) as well as in Myanmar/Indonesia and Hungary
  • tax, labour market and social policy in Germany in international comparison
  • basic security/citizen's income
  • poverty reduction and development policy
  • digitalisation, especially in the area of the future of work

Professor Elke Mack (Christian Social Science and Social Ethics)

  • global ethics
  • theories of justice

Professor Vasilios N. Makrides (Religious Studies with focus on Orthodox Christianity)

  • Orthodoxy, State and Politics in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
  • secular cults and political religions
  • orthodox Christianity and nationalism
  • orthodox Christianity, violence and potential for conflict

Dr Silvan Niedermeier (History)  

  • racism and civil rights in the USA
  • African/American history
  • history of violence
  • visual history, colonial history
  • history of US imperialism

Dr Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala (Public Policy)

  • conflict dynamics
  • security sector reform
  • peace consolidation and reconciliation processes

Professor Patrick Rössler (Empirical Communication Research/Methods)

  • political communication

Dr Tatjana Tarkian (Philosophy)

  • political philosophy

Professor Thorsten Thiel (Democracy Promotion and Digital Policy)

  • digital public sphere and social media
  • digital and internet policy
  • democracy theory
  • democracy development
  • artificial intelligence
  • European democracy
  • democratic innovations

Professor Cornelia Betsch (Psychology / Health Communication)

  • risk perception and communication
  • planetary health communication
  • conflict between individual and social benefits of health decisions, social dilemmas
  • psychological factors influencing vaccination decisions and the use of antibiotics

Dr Dominik Daube (Health Communication)

  • health communication in the context of climate protection, with a focus on heat
  • (psychological) factors influencing heat protection behaviour
  • information behaviour in the health context (source use and trust)
  • participatory decision-making and research (including shared decision-making in the health context)

Dr Sarah Eitze (Health Communication)

  • psychological factors influencing vaccination decisions
  • women's health (especially endometriosis and stigmatisation)
  • health promotion

Professor Inga Glogger-Frey (Educational Psychology)

  • learning strategies and learning
  • teaching methods: example-based learning, activation of prior knowledge

Dr Mirjam Jenny (Psychology)

  • climate protection and health promotion

Professor Sven Jöckel (Communication Science with a Focus on Children and Youth Media)

  • topics in the area of conflict between youth media use, behavioural change and health – for example, questions about media effects in fictional offers, entertainment-education or personal well-being

Professor Jürgen Martschukat (North American History)

  • history of nutrition and health
  • fatness and fitness in the USA
  • management of a research project on "The Eating Subject: A History of the Political in the USA from the 19th to the 21st Century", "Nutrition, Health and Social Order in Modernity: Germany and the USA"

Professor Guido Mehlkop (Methods of Empirical Social Research)

  • use of performance-enhancing drugs in the (German) population
  • drug Abuse
  • ethical and normative aspects of pharmaceutical performance enhancement and their effects on the willingness to take
  • decision theory and decision heuristics regarding drug abuse

Dr Frank Renkewitz (Psychology)

  • risk perception and communication
  • decision-making in the health sector
  • research methods

Professor Patrick Rössler (Empirical Communication Research/Methods)

  • presentation of health in (audiovisual) media
  • effects of media health messages, especially on children
  • health as an object of entertainment-education measures
  • media use and media effects
  • political communication
  • online communication
  • visual communication in a historical perspective

Dr Markus Seifert (Communication Science)

  • health services
  • hospital sociology
  • doctor-patient communication
  • new media and grief management

Dr Parichehr Shamsrizi (Health Communication)

  • vaccination behaviour
  • vaccination communication / doctor-patient communication / role of medical staff in communicating climate and health
  • behaviour/risk perception/attitude/communication in the context of climate change and health

Dr Tatjana Tarkian (Philosophy)

  • medical ethics, especially ethical questions of reproductive medicine, brain death debate and organ transplantation
  • political philosophy

Professor Patrick Becker (Fundamental Theology and Religious Studies)

  • world views in modern societies
  • secularity
  • notions of freedom and illiberalism
  • modern belief in progress

Professor Tilmann Betsch (Social, Organizational and Economic Psychology)

  • thinking: Judging, deciding, problem solving - from childhood to adulthood
  • attitudes and behaviour
  • dealing with risk
  • intuition
  • habits and routines
  • epistemology and scientific method

Professor Frank Domahs (Applied Linguistics / Psycholinguistics)

  • human language comprehension
  • human language production
  • language disorders

Professor Csaba Földes (German Linguistics) 

  • languages, linguistics
  • German language
  • language policy, multilingualism
  • intercultural communication
  • German as a foreign language, German as a second language
  • German abroad
  • migration and language
  • idioms, proverbs
  • language – culture – interculturalism
  • German speaking minorities abroad

Professor Andreas Gotzmann (Jewish Studies)

  • jewish history and culture, general questions of social debates about Jews and Judaism

Professor Kai Hafez (Communication Science with focus on comparative analysis of media systems/communication cultures)

  • muslims in Germany
  • immigration, refugees
  • Islam
  • Middle East/North Africa, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Iran
  • social media
  • media and politics

Professor Michael Haspel (Systematic Theology, Martin Luther Institute)

  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • black protest movement in the USA
  • peace ethics
  • US security policy

PD Dr Bettina Hollstein (Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Studies)    

  • business ethics
  • volunteering
  • sustainability
  • service learning
  • pragmatic action theory

Professor Achim Kemmerling (Professor of Public Policy and International Development)

  • tax, labour market and social policy in Germany in international comparison
  • basic security/citizen's income
  • poverty reduction and development policy
  • digitalisation, especially in the area of the future of work

Professor Benedikt Kranemann (Liturgical Science)

  • rituals: religious and non-religious rituals
  • celebrations
  • funeral ceremonies after disasters

Dr Silvan Niedermeier (History)

  • racism and civil rights in the USA
  • US-American cultural history
  • history of the US American South
  • African American history
  • history of violence
  • visual history, colonial history
  • history of US imperialism

Professor Elke Mack (Christian Social Science and Social Ethics)

  • legal ethics
  • ethics of migration
  • social ethics

Professor Vasilios N. Makrides (Religious Studies with Focus on Orthodox Christianity)

  • culture, language and society
  • orthodox cultures in history and present
  • religious ideas and mentalities in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
  • Orthodoxy, the West and Europe/European Integration
  • orthodox rigorism/fundamentalism
  • orthodox world and modernity
  • conversions to orthodox Christianity

Dr Kathrin Paasch (Gotha Research Library)

  • library and information science
  • books

Professor Susanne Rau (History and Cultures of Spaces in Modern Times)

  • city history, urbanity, metropolises
  • spatiality and temporality
  • history of borders
  • "global" trade in pre-modern times,
  • history of the atlas as a form of knowledge
  • history of historiography

Professor Gila Antonia Schauer (Applied Linguistics with Focus on English Studies)

  • intercultural communication
  • language and culture (with focus on English and German)
  • discourtesy
  • courtesy
  • pragmatics
  • discourse analysis
  • second language acquisition and academic stays abroad

Professor Till Talaulicar (Organization and Management)

  • supervisory boards // leadership
  • corporate codes of ethics
  • corporate governance
  • corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  • German corporate governance code

Professor Andreas Gotzmann (Jewish Studies)

  • Jewish history and culture

Professor Andreas Lindner (Church History/Systematic Theology)

  • Church
  • History of theology from its beginnings to 1945 with special emphasis on the history of the Reformation, the history of the church and theology of the early modern period

Professor Vasilios N. Makrides (Religious Studies with focus on Orthodox Christianity)

  • History of Orthodox Churches/Cultures in Eastern and South Eastern Europe
  • Relations between Germany and Greece from the early modern period to the present day

Professor Jürgen Martschukat (North American History)    

  • History of nutrition and health
  • Management of a research project on "The Eating Subject: A History of the Political in the USA from the 19th to the 21st Century", "Nutrition, Health and Social Order in Modernity: Germany and the USA

Dr Markus Meumann (Gotha Research Centre)

  • Cultural history of war and organised violence
  • Freemasonry and secret societies (esp. the Illuminati)

Dr Silvan Niedermeier (History)

  • Racism and civil rights in the USA
  • US-American cultural history
  • History of the US American South
  • African American History
  • History of violence
  • Visual History, Colonial History
  • History of US imperialism

Professor Susanne Rau (history and cultures of spaces in modern times)

  • Urban history, urbanity, the ‘good life’ in the city of the future
  • History of borders
  • Trade history, history of fairs and markets
  • History of collecting
  • Regions: Germany, France, South Asia

Professor Patrick Rössler (Empirical Communication Research/Methods)

  • Press History

Dr Heiner Stahl (History / Communication Studies)

  • Environmental History
  • Noise/soundscapes – neighbourhood noise/emission/customary/air and traffic noise/industrial plants/agriculture
  • Occupational safety
  • Pleasure and taste of food at royal courts and bourgeois consumer culture in the 18th and 19th century (ice cream)
  • Floriculture and plant breeding in Erfurt, Germany and Europe (after 1820)
  • Remembrance culture in East Germany/GDR/National Socialism
  • Denazification and denazification court proceedings
  • Street names and renamings, lines of conflict in practical urban history in the 19th and 20th century
  • Media system in Germany and Europe since 1750
  • NS careers of female and male journalists
  • Media History
  • Press, Broadcasting and Journalism in Historical Perspective
  • Re-examining National Socialism
  • National Socialists in Federal Ministries and Authorities in the Bonn Republic
  • Pop Music and Youth Culture in the GDR and West Berlin since 1945
  • Language of Politics/Political Language in Historical Perspective
  • History of Concepts and Historical Semantics

Dr Florian Wagner (History)

  • Colonial history
  • Postcolonial theory
  • History of racism
  • History of Africa
  • Migration history

Professor Andreas Gotzmann (Jewish Studies)

  • Historical and cultural collections, museums and archives related to Judaism

Dr Kathrin Paasch (Gotha Research Library)

  • Collection research
  • Library and Information Science
  • Conservation and restoration science
  • Profile-forming collections of the FB Gotha (Reformation history collections, oriental collection, Gotha Perthes collection)

Dr Petra Weigel (Gotha Research Library)

  • Gotha Perthes Collection

Sven Ballenthin (Gotha Research Library)

  • Gotha Perthes Collection

Professor Andreas Goldthau (Franz Haniel Professor of Political Science)

  • Global Energy Transition / Energy Turnaround & EU Green Deal
  • Climate policy (Paris Agreement, climate justice, ...)
  • EU energy security (Russian gas, green hydrogen, etc.)
  • International energy markets (oil, OPEC, ...)

PD Dr Bettina Hollstein (Max Weber Kolleg for Cultural and Social Studies)

  • Business Ethics
  • Volunteering
  • Sustainability
  • Service learning
  • Pragmatic action theory

Professor Achim Kemmerling (Professor of Public Policy and International Development at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy/ Faculty of Political Science)

  • Latin American economies (especially Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay) as well as in Myanmar/Indonesia and Hungary
  • Basic income/ citizen's income
  • Labour market and social policy (especially social benefits)

Professor Elke Mack (Christian Social Science and Social Ethics)    

  • Global ethics
  • Theories of Justice
  • Business Ethics

Professor Vasilios N. Makrides (Religious Studies with focus on Orthodox Christianity)

  • Orthodox Christianity, economic development and modernisation in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Professor Till Talaulicar (Organization and Management)

  • Supervisory Board
  • Corporate Codes of Ethics
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
  • German Corporate Governance Code
  • Management Organization
  • Organization and Management
  • Business Ethics
  • Corporate Codes
  • Board of Directors

Professor Miriam Zschoche (Strategic and International Management)

  • Internationalisation of German companies
  • Investment by foreign companies in Germany
  • Redundancies
  • Family businesses
  • East German companies

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