CV

Principal research and teaching interests

• Voting in national and comparative perspective, with a specific interest in the voters of Right-wing Extremist parties in Western Europe
• Political attitudes and value orientations in comparative
  perspective, with a particular interest in political disaffection
  and alienation (“Politikverdrossenheit“)
• Research methods in political science
• German and West European politics

Education

• 2007: Venia Legendi for political science
• 2002-2006: Habilitation project “Extreme Right voters in Western
  Europe, 1980-2002″
• 2001/2002: PhD in political science Johannes
  Gutenberg-Universität Mainz;
  Politikverdrossenheit. Bedeutung, Verwendung und empirische Relevanz
  eines politikwissenschaftlichen Begriffes
• 1996: State Examination (political science, sociology, and German) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Positions held

• Professor of Political Science, University of Mainz and Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, University of Essex
• 2006-2009 Lecturer in German and West European Politics/DAAD fellow,
  Department of Government, University of Essex
• 2002-2006: Senior researcher/lecturer (“C1″), Institut für
  Politikwissenschaft/Universität Mainz
• 1998-2001: Junior researcher/lecturer, University of Mainz
• 1997-1998: Research associate within the DFG-funded project
  “Conjoint Analysis as a Tool for Voting Research”

Teaching

• Wide range of modules in the fields of methods, political
  sociology, German and West European Politics – see separate pages
  for Germany and UK

Awards and Distinctions

• Grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG) for the publication of my monograph on “Politikverdrossenheit”
• Johannes Gutenberg-Universität dissertation prize
• DAAD Lecturer Fellowship