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

Current external funding

• 2016 “Sub-national context and radical right support in Europe”. Funded by ORA (ANR, DFG, ESRC, NWO), ca. 1.8 million Euro
• 2016 “Problems of Representation in the domain of Biopolitics:
  Parliamentary Decision and Public Opinion on PGD”. Funded by DFG, ca. 220,000 Euro
• 2014 “Candidate location and voter perceptions in the 2015 General Election”. Funded by the Thyssen Foundation, ca. 15.000 Euro
• 2014 “National and Europeanised Identities before, during, and after the European Parliamentary Election”. Funded by the Thyssen Foundation, ca. 34,000 Euro
• 2013 Local Organiser of the 41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops. Funding from German Science Foundation (DFG) ca. 41.000, RLP state government 10,000 Euro plus 10.000 Euro in private donations and sponsoring income
• 2010-12 “Information, Framing, and Openness for Political Reform”. Funded by the Thyssen Foundation, ca. 28.000 Euro

Last positions held

• 2017/18 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair in German and European Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy & Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
• 2009- Professor of Political Science, University of Mainz
• 2006-2009 Lecturer in German and West European Politics/DAAD fellow,
  Department of Government, University of Essex

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
  Politikverdrossenheit. Bedeutung, Verwendung und empirische Relevanz
  eines politikwissenschaftlichen Begriffes
• 1996: State Examination (political science, sociology, and German)

Teaching

• Wide range of modules in the fields of methods, political
  sociology, German and West European Politics, taught in English and German

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