| Africa | Prof. Klaus Schlichte |
| Authoritarian Regimes | Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines, Dr. Roy Karadag |
| Climate Policy | Prof. Dr. Raimund Bleischwitz |
| Comparative Politics | Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger, Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines, Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens, Prof. Dr. Lukas Haffert |
| Computational Social Science | Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger |
| Democracy | Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff |
| Development Economics | Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens, Dr. Roy Karadag |
| Didactics of the social sciences | Dr. Hendrik Schröder |
| Didactics of Political Science | Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee, Dr. Hendrik Schröder |
| Eastern Europe | Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines |
| Economy and Politics | Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines |
| Educational Policy | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens |
| E-Governance | PD Dr. Stefan Luft, Prof. Dr. Markus Tepe |
| Emotions and Politics | Dr. Hendrik Schröder |
| European Integration, Europeanization | Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt |
| Federal Republic of Germany | Prof. Dr. Markus Tepe |
| Global Social Policy | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss, Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens |
| Globalisation | Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
| Global Governance | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens, Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
| International Conflict Research | Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte, Dr. Roy Karadag |
| International Environmental Policy | Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Prof. Dr. Raimund Bleischwitz |
| International Law | Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt |
| International Organisations | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens, Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
| International Relations | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens, Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte, Dr. Roy Karadag |
| International Security Policy, Internationalization | Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Dr. Roy Karadag |
| Intenational Systems of Government (comparative) | Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger, Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt |
| International Trade Policy | Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt |
| International Justice | Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
| Law and Politics | Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt |
| Latin America | Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens |
| Local Politics | PD Dr. Stefan Luft, Prof. Dr. Markus Tepe |
| Media Policy | PD Dr. Stefan Luft |
| Migration | PD Dr. Stefan Luft, Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens |
| National System of Government | Prof. Dr. Markus Tepe |
| Near and Middle East | Dr. Roy Karadag |
| NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens, Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss |
| Parties and Associations | Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger |
| Political Communication | Dr. Stefan Luft |
| Political Discurse | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss |
| Political Economy | Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens, Prof. Dr. Lukas Haffert |
| Political Education | Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee, Dr. Hendrik Schröder |
| Political Theory | Prof. Dr. Nonhoff, Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
| Political Violence | Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte, Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger, Dr. Roy Karadag |
| Privatization, Liberalization | Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger, Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt |
| Quantitative Methods | Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger, Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens |
| Social Movements | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss, Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger |
| Teaching and Learning Research | Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee, Dr. Hendrik Schröder |
| Transformations of the State | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens |
| Urban and Rural | Prof. Dr. Lukas Haffert |
| Welfare State (comparing internationally) | Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger, Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens |
| Welfare State | Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger, Prof. Dr. Sarah Berens |