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Keusch, a professor of Social Data Science and Methodology at the University of Mannheim, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). His term of office began on 1 July 2026 and will last five years.

Oliver Dickhäuser, Professor for Educational Psychology, has been elected as a new member of the Senate of the Leibniz Association. His term of office lasts four years and begins on 1 August 2026. At the same time, he has been appointed to the Senate Competition Committee.

In Mannheim, the waiting time for psychotherapy is between three and six months. Thanks to two new psychotherapeutic outpatient clinics founded at the University of Mannheim, anyone affected — adults as well as children and adolescents — can now profit from additional care services. The ceremonial ...

An international study by the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, led by Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling, systematically compares radicalism, extremism and fundamentalism across countries for the first time.