Faculty

The DIA faculty is made up of professors from the four disciplines economics, political science, management and public international and European law. The faculty members may also serve as supervisors or co-supervisors for a thesis.

Name	Research Interests
Prof. James W. Davis, Ph.D.	Theories of International Politics, Security Policy
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dingwerth	Political Theory, International and Transnational Relations
Prof. Patrick Emmenegger, Ph.D.	Comparative and International Political Economy, Public Policy, Social Science Methodology
Prof. Dr. Christoph Frei	International Relations, History of Political Ideas, France (political system, political culture)
Prof. Tina Freyburg, Ph.D.	International and European governance, transgovernmental networks; democracy promotion and transnational socialization; social science methodology
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lehmkuhl	European Public Policy, European External Relations

Economics

Name	Research interests
Prof. Dr. Francesco Audrino	Computational Statistics, Financial Econometrics, Machine Learning
Prof. Dr. Johannes Binswanger	Economics, Data science, machine learning, Political economics, Innovative approaches to teaching economics, Adapting academic curricula in economics to the digital age
Prof. Timo Boppart, Ph.D.	International Trade, Growth, Distribution, Development
Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler	Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Regulation, Antitrust Law and Economics
Prof. Guido Cozzi, Ph.D.	Macroeconomics
Prof. Enrico De Giorgi, Ph.D.	Decision Theory, Risk Theory, Quantitative Behavioural Finance
Prof. Beatrix Eugster, Ph.D.	Applied Econometrics, Disability and Integration, Labour Economics
Prof. Simon Evenett, Ph.D.	Foreign Policy and Development
Prof. Dr. Matthias Fengler	Financial econometrics and statistics, Empirical finance
Prof. Dr. Reto Föllmi	Macroeconomics, International Trade
Prof. Dr. Dennis Gärtner	Applied Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory and Mechanism Design, Regulation, Competition Policy
Prof. Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva
Prof. Dr. Roland Hodler	Development Economics, Political Economics, Public Economics
Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg	Public Economics, Economic Policy
Prof. Dr. Martin Kolmar	Economics with focus on Applied Microeconometrics
Prof. Dr. Winfried Koeniger	Macroeconomics, Consumption, Labor Economics, Decisions under Uncertainty
Prof. Dr. Michael Lechner	Causal Machine Learning, Sports, labour, health, and population economics; Microeconometrics
Prof. Paolo Piacquadio, Ph.D.	Public economics, Welfare economics, Optimal redistribution policies, Inequality, poverty, mobility, Intergenerational equity, Fairness, Social preferences
Prof. David Preinerstorfer, Ph.D.	Causal machine learning, Big Data
Prof. Dr. Dominik Sachs	Public Economics, Macroeconomics, Inequality, Education

Management

Name	Research interests
Prof. Dr. Alexander Geissler
Prof. Dr. Kuno Schedler	Comparative Public Management, Public Sector Accounting and Budgeting, Organization Theory
Prof. Dr. Charlotta Sirén	Strategic entrepreneurship, Organizational learning, Ambidexterity, Emotions, Corporate entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Judith Walls	Environmental strategy and performance, CEOs and Board of Directors, Institutional theory, Alternative theories of governance, Micro-foundations of sustainable behaviour
Prof. Dr. Rolf Wüstenhagen	Management of Renewable Energies; Decision-Making of Energy Consumers and Investors under Uncertainty

Public International and European Law

Name	Research interests
Prof. Dr. Thomas Burri	Public international law, European law, artificial intelligence
Prof. Dr. Bardo Fassbender	General public international law, United Nations Law, Comparative constitutional law and history
Prof. Dr. Peter Hongler	Tax Law, International Tax Law, Corporate Taxation