Assistant Professor (tenure track)
University of Münster
email: thilo.albers@uni-muenster.de
website: https://sites.google.com/site/tnhalbers/
Thilo is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Münster. Prior to that, Thilo was a postdoctoral fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, has won several prizes in his field, and has published widely at the intersection of economic history, political science, economics, and finance. His research seeks to understand how economic outcomes have historically shaped policymaking at the local, national, and international level and how policy in turn has affected economic outcomes.
Professor & Associate Professor
University of Münster & Aarhus University
email: db@danbischof.com
website: https://www.danbischof.com/
Since 2023 Daniel has been Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Münster as well as Associate Professor of Politics at Aarhus University. Prior to that, Daniel has been an SNF Ambizione (2019-2023) and postdoctoral fellow (2015-2019) at the University of Zurich. He conducted his PhD studies at the University of Leicester (UK) and held various visiting positions at Harvard University, the European University Institute and the University of California, San Diego among others. His research mainly seeks to understand the role of social norms for political behavior in contemporary democracies.
Professor
University of Münster
email: andreas.stegmann@uni-muenster.de
website: https://www.andreas-stegmann.com/
Andreas is Professor and Chair of Political Economy at the University of Münster. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is a J-PAL Affiliate and a Research Associate at CAGE. He received his PhD from CEMFI in Madrid. His research focuses on applied microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on political economy and development economics.
Assistant Professor
Aarhus University
email: ksf@ps.au.dk
website: https://sites.google.com/view/kristianfrederiksen
Kristian is Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Department of Political Science. In his research, he primarily seeks to answer why citizens sometimes support politicians who break democratic principles, why citizens sometimes oppose democratic norm violations, and shed light on citizens’ involvement in processes of both democratic backsliding and restoration. He has fielded several cross-country survey experiments to answer such questions. Besides these specific research interests, his broader interest is comparative politics, political behavior, and causal inference.
Postdoc
Aarhus University
email: morgan.lcj@ps.au.dk
website: https://www.morganlecorrejuratic.com/
Morgan is a post-doctoral researcher at Aarhus University and was previously a PhD researcher at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on polarization and current challenges to democracies. In her dissertation, she studied the consequences of party polarization for citizens’ political behavior in Europe. Her current research agenda focuses on the role of elites in shifting democratic norms. She is specialized in mixed-methods designs and uses experiments, computational text analysis, and qualitative focus groups analysis. Her broad research interests include party competition, political behavior, and public opinion.
Postdoc
University of Münster
email: elena.leuschner@uni-muenster.de
website: https://elenaleuschner.github.io/
Elena is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Münster. She was previously a PhD researcher at the University of Gothenburg and has been a visiting fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and the University of Oxford. At the intersection between comparative politics and political behavior, Elena studies protests and when politicians or governments are responsive to protesters’ demands. In her research, she employs various methods, such as survey experiments with political elites, econometric modeling, or quantitative text analysis.
Postdoc
University of Münster (starting 2026)
email: reiskemonique@gmail.com
website: https://www.monique-reiske.de
Starting in 2026, Monique will be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster. She is currently finishing her PhD at the chair for economic history at the Humboldt-University Berlin, is a member of the Berlin School of Economics and has been a visiting PhD-student at the University of Oxford. Monique’s research interests lie at the intersection between economic history and political economy, with a particular focus on strategies of anti-democratic movements, which she analyzes by taking quantitative empirical methods to historical sources. In her dissertation, she shows how economic distress and strategic political violence contributed to the success of the Nazi party in early 1930s Germany.
Postdoc
University of Münster
email: m.wegemann@uni-muenster.de
website: https://mirko-wegemann.github.io/
Mirko is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Münster. He was previously a PhD researcher at theEuropean University Institute in Florence and a visiting fellow at the University of Vienna and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Mirko studies changing patterns of party competition in Western Europe, with a focus on challenger parties’ programmatic evolution. In addition, he delves into the role of gender in politics and citizens’ perceptions of policy justifications. In his research, he employs various methods such as survey experiments and natural language processing.
Postdoc
University of Zurich
email: tim.allinger@ipz.uzh.ch
website: https://tim-allinger.github.io/
Tim is a postdoc at the University of Zurich. Beforehand Tim conducted his Ph.D. studies at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University and was a visiting scholar at Princeton University (Spring 2024). In his research, he studies the causes of political extremism and its consequences for democracy and society more generally. Specifically, he seeks to understand what factors make citizens justify violence against minority groups, and under which conditions this translates into intolerant and extreme forms of behavior. To answer these questions, his research relies on diverse quantitative methods with a focus on innovative experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
PhD Student
University of Münster
email: kukyoung.heo@uni-muenster.de
Kukyoung is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Münster. He holds an MSc in Economics from LMU Munich and a BSc/MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics. His research lies at the intersection of economics, economic history, and political science. Current projects range from constructing a cross-country database to study long-run patterns of labor and capital taxation since the 19th century, to applying text analysis methods to parliamentary debates. In his work, he applies diverse methods including econometric modeling, panel data analysis, and text analysis.
PhD Student
University of Münster (starting 2025)
email: juliushinderfeld@uni-muenster.de
Julius is a PhD student at the University of Münster since June 2025. His work focuses on economic history, urban economics and theories of city growth and structural change.
PhD Student
University of Münster
email: patricia.puspitasari@uni-muenster.de
Patricia is a doctoral student at the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Münster. She holds two Master’s degrees in Economics, from the University of Bonn and Universitas Diponegoro. She has gained research experience as a research assistant at institutions such as J-PAL, EconTribute, and ZEF. Her research interests include Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy. She has particular experience with laboratory experiments and a regional focus on Indonesia, while remaining open to a broad range of empirical and experimental methods.
PhD Student
European University Institute
email: raphael.lagrange@eui.eu
Raphaël is a PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence. After graduating from Sciences Po, he is exploring how representatives survey public opinion and how their interactions with constituents influence their reception of citizens’ opinions.
Research Assistant & Coordinating Tutor
University of Münster
email: max.petersen@uni-muenster.de
