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Humboldt-Governance Lab

We work with a network of dedicated researchers in Political Science, Sociology and Economics.


Who we are

Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver | Director

Professor Heike Klüver is Professor and Chair of Political Behavior at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group “The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy”. Previously, she was Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Hamburg, Professor of Empirical Political Science at the University of Bamberg, Junior Professor of Political Administration and Policy Analysis at the University of Konstanz, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Among other things, she was a member of the social science advisory board on the Corona Pandemic of the Berlin state government and holds numerous positions in scientific professional associations such as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Her research focuses on political behavior, political competition, and government policy and relies on quantitative and experimental methods. She has published over 50 articles and 2 books in renowned international journals and publishers. For more information, please visit her Website.

Felix Hartmann, Co-Director, hu govlab

Dr. Felix Hartmann | Co-Director

Felix Hartmann is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at the Copenhagen Business School. Previously, he was a Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Chair of Political Behavior at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research is devoted to comparative politics, political economy, and social science methods. In doing so, he combines experiments, large data sets, and field research.

Affiliated Researchers

Dr. Fabio Ellger

WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Dr. Cornelius Erfort

University of Witten/Herdecke

Dr. Violeta Haas

Toulouse School of Economics

Dr. Alba Huidobro

Humboldt University of Berlin

Prof. Dr. Theres Matthieß

Georg August University of Göttingen

Dr. Đorđe Milosav

Humboldt University of Berlin

Prof. Dr. Lukas Stoetzer

University of Witten/Herdecke

Dr. Jan Stuckatz

Copenhagen Business School

Frederik Thieme

Humboldt University of Berlin

Dr. Maria Thürk

University of Gothenburg

Dr. Asli Unan

University of Amsterdam

Dr. António Valentim

London School of Economics and
Political Science

Tim Wappenhans

Humboldt University of Berlin

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