Doctoral students supervised by Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer
Further details on the individual dissertational projects can be found on the profile pages of the doctoral candidates.
Simona Autolitano
Digital sovereignty discourses on the European Union’s cybersecurity policy architecture
Vanessa Dreier
In her dissertation, Vanessa examines the growing African efforts to shape data and AI governance on the continent.
Nicolas Huppenbauer
Negotiating Connectivity: The Coproduction of Chinese Technopolitics and Transnational Digital Infrastructure
Xin Jin
China-Europe Relations and Digital Geopolitics
Ruth Knoblich
The Trilemma of Intellectual Property Regulation in Technologically Advanced Countries with Highly Unequal Societies. South Africa as a Case Study
Yen-Chi Lu
Corporate Power and Peripheral Stacks: Chinese ICT Firms and “Smart Infrastructures” in the Periphery
Philip Nock
Awakening to the Era of Weaponized Interdependence? Semiconductor Production Networks, Sino-US Tech Competition, and European Responses
Frederik Schmitz
Feel‘ the Party - Impacts of emotions on the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy
Ningjie Zhu
The Path from Policy Objectives to Digital Functionality: Chinese Party-State Algorithmic Regulation in Social Governance