From October 2018 onwards, Céline Teney takes over the Professorship for “Fundamentals of Social Sciences”. She wrote her PhD thesis on the socio-cultural integration of second generation immigrants at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Prior to coming to Göttingen she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center and led a junior research group at the University of Bremen on the topic of intra-EU highly skilled migration. Moreover, she was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, UCLA and Harvard University. She was awarded with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize in 2016.

Her research focuses on the societal consequences of globalisation. Globalisation has been largely transforming the situation of the international order, nation states and individuals. Globalisation has been indeed leading to new opportunities, but also risks and inequalities for both national states and their citizens. This issue constitutes the core of Céline Teney´s research agenda, which is based on a comparative approach and encompasses various quantitative methods and mixed methods. She investigates the new forms of inequality in the age of globalisation as well as the resulting forms of reaction and contestation among the European population. For instance, she has been analysing the elite-mass gap in attitudes toward globalisation or the increasing socio-political polarisation along globalisation issues.

In an actual research project, Céline Teney (together with Prof. Dr. Katja Möhring from the University of Mannheim) investigates public support for quotas for the promotion of gender and ethnic equality on the labour market. For this purpose, she will carry out survey experiments in Germany, France and Denmark.

With regard to teaching, Céline Teney places particular emphasis on sharpening students´ reflection and analytical capacities. Research-based and problem-based learning therefore comprises the basis of her teaching approach. In her courses, she integrates the state-of-the-art empirical literature next to the theoretical and methodological foundations. This enables the students to reflect not only the theoretical concepts and methodology in the social sciences but also on current empirical research issues and various components of the empirical approach in the social sciences.