Professorships

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut (Stiftung Mercator Professorship for Sociology, with a focus on the Social Dynamics of Ecological Transformation)
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Beyer (economic and organizational sociology)
• Prof. Dr. Anita Engels (globalization, environment and society)
• Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel (security and resilience)
• Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kley (ecologization and quantitative methods of social research)
• Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann (sociology)
• Prof. Dr. Achim Oberg (digital social science)
• Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski (sociology with a focus on violence and security)
• Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder (sociology of scientific research)
• Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli (general sociology)

• Prof. Dr. Olaf Asbach (history and theory of political thought)
• Prof. Dr. Merike Blofield (Global Health and Social Policy)
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner (political science and Asian studies, and GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies)
• Prof. Dr. Franziska Müller (political science with a focus on globalisation and goverance in climate policy) until 15 March 2025
• Prof. Dr. Peter Niesen (political theory)
• Prof. Dr. Elvira Rosert (political science and international relations (IFSH))
• Prof. Dr. Alexandra Scacco (comparative political science: migration, health and conflict in the global south)
• Prof. Dr. Max Schaub (political science,  international relations and global health)
• Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp (political science and research methods)
• Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder (political science and peace research and security policy (IFSH))
• Prof. Dr. Vera Troeger (political science and comparative politics)
• Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD (global governance)

• Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann (climate and science communication)
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw (digitized communication and sustainability)
• Prof. Dr. Volker Lilienthal (practice of quality journalism)
• Prof. Dr. Juliane Lischka (digital journalism)
• Prof. Dr. Judith Möller (empirical communication research, especially media use and social media effects)

• Dr. Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse (Chair of Sociology: Social Dynamics of Ecological Transformation)
• Dr. Angela Pohlmann (Globalisation, Environment and Society)
• Dr. Matthias Revers (Journalism and Communication Studies)
• Dr. Nils Schuhmacher (Security and Reslience)
• Dr. Helge Schwiertz (Sociological Theory)

• Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Enzmann
• Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann
• Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen
• Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schneider

• N.N.

• Former: Prof. Dr. Thomas Malsch (until 2012 Professor of Sociology of Technology at the Technical University of Hamburg )
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran
• Prof. Dr. Peter Wetzels
• Former: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch (until 2015 Professor at the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Head of the ‘Institute for Coastal Research’ at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research)

Sociology

• Prof. Dr. Alexander Deichsel
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Eichner
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Heinemann
• Prof. Dr. Hans Wilhelm Hetzler
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kleining
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Korte
• Prof. Dr. Walter Kristof
• Prof. Dr. Rolf von Lüde
• Prof. Dr. Max Miller
• Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel
• Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger
• Prof. Dr. Marianne Pieper
• Prof. Dr. Heinz Renn
• Prof. Dr. Peter Runde
• Prof. Dr. Gregor Siefer
• Prof. Dr. Ingrid Sommerkorn
• Prof. Dr. phil Gerhard Stapelfeldt
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Fritz Sack (Criminological Social Research)
• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scheerer (Criminological Social Research)
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Seßar (Criminological Social Research)
• Prof. Dr. Peter Stromberger

Political science

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Betz 
• Prof. Dr. Michael Broska 
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgen Gantzel
• Prof. Dr. Michael Th. Greven 
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans-Hermann Hartwich
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein
• Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit
• Prof. Dr. Hans J. Kleinsteuber
• Prof. Dr. Christine Landfried
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Raschke
• Prof. Dr. Peter Raschke
• Prof. Dr. Peter Reichel
• Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff

Journalism and mass communication

• Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla
• Prof. Dr. Dieter Roß
• Prof. Dr. Siegfried Weischenberg