Newly Appointed
Anna Bindler was appointed Professor for Applied Microeconomics (pay scale group W3) at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences in a joint appointment with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
After studying economics at the University of Bonn and at the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE) in Paris, she completed a Ph.D. on Labour Markets, Public Policy and Crime at the University College London. After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2020, she has been a professor at the University of Cologne and a member of the ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence. She has now been appointed head of the Applied Microeconomics Department at DIW Berlin.
Her research interests include applied microeconomics, in particular with reagrd to crime, labor, and inequality. She analyzes labor market, social, and economic policy effects, economic causes of crime and its effects as well as potential interactions between crime, equal opportunities, and distributional issues.
Niclas Böhmer was appointed Professor for Algorithmic Decision Making and Society (pay scale group W1, tenure track) at the Digital Engineering Faculty in a joint appointment with the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI).
After studying computer science at RWTH Aachen and the University of Oxford, he obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science at TU Berlin. Afterwards, he completed his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University on AI for Social Good. His research has received several awards, including the 2023 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.
In his research, Böhmer designs and analyzes algorithms that make decisions for groups of individuals with competing interests. His research aims to improve computer-based participation and allocation processes and to make AI algorithms fairer and more trans-parent.
Kaspar Burger was appointed Professor for Social Science Educational and Life Course Research (pay scale group W2) at the Faculty of Human Sciences.
Previously, he was associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Luxembourg, SNF Eccellenza Professor at the University of Zurich, Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at the University College London and the University of Minnesota as well as scientific senior assistant at the University of Geneva and the University of Fribourg. He is also honorary associate professor at the University College London.
Burger researches the significance of education over the life course. He is particularly interested in researching how individual, social, and political factors influence educational trajectories, and how education shapes life chances and life courses.
Jenny Haase was appointed Professor for Romance Literature (French/Spanish) (pay scale group W3) at the Faculty of Arts.
She studied German and Spanish at the University of Göttingen, Universitat de Barcelona, and Humboldt University Berlin.She completed her doctorate at Humboldt University with a thesis on Patagonian narra-tives, which was awarded the Elise Richter Prize by the Romance studies organization “Deutscher Romanistikverband” in 2009, where she then worked as a research assistant from 2008 to 2020. She completed her habilitation at Humboldt University with a study on mystical writing of modern women poets, for which she conducted research at Stan-ford University (USA) from 2015 to 2017 with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and received the Hugo Friedrich and Erich Köhler Award from the University of Freiburg in 2024. From 2020 to 2024, she first worked as an interim pro-fessor and then as a W2 Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature and cultural studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Her research interests include Spanish- and French-language literature and culture of the 19th to 21st century with a focus on ecocriticism and new materialisms, mysticism, religion and secularization, post- and decolonial theories, poetry, and the literature of female au-thors.
