I’m Lennart, a political scientist exploring the intersection of comparative politics and political sociology. Currently, I work as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and as a PRIME Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin/WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and at WZB’s Center for Civil Society Research. I received my PhD from the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne. During my doctoral studies, I was also a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

My research interests include protest, social movements, political participation, political representation, electoral systems, European politics and computational social sciences. In my PhD thesis, I studied Political Representation and Protest Politics in European Democracies. I apply a variety of methods with special focus on computational text analysis tools and survey experiments. In my new project, Voices Beyond Ballots, I aim to create cutting-edge tools that enable the automated analysis of protest event videos, along with several other novel contributions.

My work appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Movement Studies and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties among others. I am engaged in public debates on the political effects of protests and have contributed expert opinions for example to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Tagesschau (ARD), taz-die tageszeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau.

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