The COVIDEU Team

Professor of Comparative Political Behavior

Department of Social Sciences

Humboldt University of Berlin

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 30-2093 66566

Email: heike.kluever@hu-berlin.de 

Website: http://www.heike-kluever.com/ 

Twitter: @HeikeKluever

Heike Klüver is a Full Professor and Chair of Comparative Political Behavior at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She previously held positions as Full Professor and Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg, as Professor of Empirical Political Science at the University of Bamberg, as Junior Professor at the University of Konstanz and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD from the University of Mannheim.

Her research interests include Comparative European Politics, Political Parties, Coalition Governments, Interest groups, Political Representation as well as Quantitative Text Analysis. 

Sutherland Chair in European Institutions

Department of Government

London School of Economics and Political Science

Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

Email: s.b.hobolt@lse.ac.uk 

Website: www.hobolt.com 

Twitter: @sarahobolt

Sara B. Hobolt holds the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and is a professor at the  Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently Guest Professor at the Department of Political Science (IPZ), University of Zurich.

Previously, she held posts at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan. Sara received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2005. In 2017, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy as its youngest member.

Her research and teaching interests lie in political behaviour, public opinion and the EU, and comparative politics. She has published five books and over 60 journal articles, including in the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization and Journal of Politics. Her most recent book is Political Entrepreneurs. The Rise of Challenge Parties in Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020, with Catherine De Vries). Sara is Associate Editor of Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM). She is also the Chair of the European Election Studies (EES), a Europe-wide project studying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections.

Full Professor

European Studies

University of Amsterdam

Kloveniersburgwal 48

Email: Theresa.Kuhn@uva.nl 

Website: www.theresakuhn.eu 

Twitter: @TheresaJKuhn

Theresa Kuhn is Full Professor /Hoogleraar at the Capacity group European Studies, University of Amsterdam. She teaches both in the BA and MA European studies and is one of the leaders of the theme group politics and publics at ACES (https://aces.uva.nl). Previously, she was associate professor in political science at UvA, worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford and at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Theresa Kuhn obtained a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, in 2011.

Using survey research and experimental methods, Theresa Kuhn studies how citizens react to globalization and European integration in their political attitudes and collective identities. Her research has been recognized with a number of prizes, including the UACES best book prize for her book Experiencing European Integration. Transnational Lives and European Identity (Oxford University Press 2015) and the CES Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award for the most significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of Europe for a scholar under the age of 40.

Assistant Professor

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Jaume I building (Ciutadella campus)

Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005, Barcelona, Spain

Email: toni.rodon@upf.edu 

Website: www.tonirodon.cat 

Twitter: @tonirodon

Toni Rodon is a European Doctor by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and at the Spatial Social Science Lab at Stanford University (2014-2016).

He did his Bachelor’s degree in Political and Administration Sciences and a Master in Political and Social Sciences at the UPF. He has also been a visiting student at Nuffield College (University of Oxford), at the Institute for Social Change (University of Manchester) and at the Juan March Foundation (Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences).

His research interests include electoral participation, political geography, comparative politics and historical political economy, as well as public opinion and the study of nationalism.

Associate Professor

Faculty of Economic Sciences

University of Warsaw

Długa 44/50, 00-241 Warsaw, Poland

Website: http://coin.wne.uw.edu.pl/mkrawczyk/ 

Email: mkrawczyk@wne.uw.edu.pl

Michal Krawczyk is University Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He received his PhD from CREED, University of Amsterdam. 

His research interests include lab and field experiments in economics, behavioral economics, decision making under risk, procedural fairness and academic integrity. 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Social Sciences

Humboldt University of Berlin

Email: dorde.milosav@hu-berlin.de

Đorđe Milosav is a PostDoctoral Research Fellow at the Chair for Comparative Political Behavior at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He received his PhD in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.

Đorđe works on issues related to political psychology and political behavior, with a focus on state legitimacy, immigration and climate change. Methodologically, he relies on experimental methods and causal inference.

PhD Candidate

European Studies/Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam

Kloveniersburgwal 48

1012 CX Amsterdam

Email: l.j.herbig@uva.nl
Twitter: @LisaHerbig 

Lisa Herbig is a PhD candidate in European Studies at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES) of the University of Amsterdam and the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam (DIA). Her work focuses on Euopean border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they were justified by the political actors involved. Previously, Lisa has worked on the Viral Communication Project, which explored changes in public opinion through the course of the pandemic in Germany. Topics covered in the project included the support for preventive measures, vaccination willingness, trust in political and scientific actors as well as conspiracy beliefs.

Lisa holds a Master in Intercultural Psychology from Osnabrück University and a Bachelor in Psychology from the Goethe University Frankfurt.

PhD Candidate

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

Email: irene.rodriguez@upf.edu
Website: https://irenerodriguezlopez.github.io/
Twitter: @irewrl

Irene Rodríguez-López is a PhD candidate in the Political and Social Science department at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), under the supervision of Professor Toni Rodon.

Irene’s doctoral thesis focuses specifically on COVID-19 effects on citizens’ political attitudes and electoral behavior, and how those effects have changed after two years of pandemic. Her research interests include political behavior and attitudes, far-right politics, electoral behavior and quantitative methods.

She has a BA in Political Science and Public Administration by the University of Girona (UdG) and an MA in Political Analysis and Institutional Assessment by the University of Barcelona (UB). Currently, she is obtaining a postgraduate degree in Data Analysis also at the University of Barcelona (UB).