Moin!

My name is Jessica Haak, and I am a PhD candidate and research associate in Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg. I hold an M.A. in Empirical Democracy Studies from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and a B.A. in Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt. Until December 2024, I served as a media editor and editorial assistant at the Journal of Politics.  From August to September 2025, I will be a visiting researcher of the Junior Program at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne.

My research focuses on voters and parties, political behavior, and public opinion, particularly in the context of climate change. I am furthermore interested in the digitalization of political parties. In my doctoral thesis, I investigate how extreme weather events influence individuals’ climate policy preferences, attitudes toward climate change, voting behavior, and political elite communication by linking geo-referenced survey data and social media data with weather records. 

I supervise bachelor's theses related to my research interests. Students are encouraged to contact me. I teach courses related to comparative politics and climate change opinion.

I am engaged in public debates on Green parties and the political effects of weather, and have contributed expert opinions, for example, to the Guardian, MDR Wissen, and nordbayern.de

To get in touch, please contact me via e-mail (jessica.haak@uni-hamburg.de) or via Bluesky (@haakjes.bsky.social on Bluesky).