Research Team

Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak

Principal Investigator

Email: bernd schlipphak@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49-251-83-25016
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Bernd Schlipphak is Associate Professor of Empirical Methods in the Social Sciences at the Department of Political Science, University of Münster. After his PhD at University of Freiburg (2009), Bernd has worked as a Postdoc in the field of mass attitudes toward international politics and the European Union at Universities of Salzburg (2009-2012) and Goettingen (2012-2013) before joining University of Münster. He first held a position as Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) before becoming Associate Professor in 2016. Currently, Bernd is elected member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR's Standing Group on Political Methodology and a member of Team Populism. His main research interests include the measurement and analysis of popular legitimacy of Global Governance institutions and policies. Additionally, he is interested in how popular legitimacy toward the international level feeds back to and is fed by domestic politics – the associated keywords being populism, politicization, and authority.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib

Principal Investigator

Email: oliver.treib@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49-251-83-25318
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Oliver Treib is Professor of Comparative Policy Analysis and and Research Methods at the University of Münster. He received his Master’s degree and PhD in political science from the University of Cologne. His professional career began at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, where he worked as a doctoral and post-doctoral researcher. Prior to joining the University of Münster, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, first as an Assistant Professor, then as Head of the Department of Political Science, and at the University of Salzburg, where he spent a year as tenure-track Assistant Professor. Since 2015, he has been one of the of the Convenors of the German Political Science Association’s “Arbeitskreis Integrationsforschung”. His current research revolves around the politicization of European integration and the concomitant transformation of political conflict structures in the European multi-level system. He is particularly interested in the sources of support for Eurosceptic and right-wing populist parties and in the reactions of mainstream parties to these anti-establishment challengers.

Melanie Hönnemann

Administrative Contact

Email: melanie.hoennemann@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49-251-83-29357
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Dr. Constantin Schäfer

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: constantin.schaefer@uni-muenster.de
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Constantin Schäfer was a member of the RECONNECT Team Muenster from October 1st 2019 to September 30th 2021. Constantin is an expert on attitudes towards European integration and electoral behavior in European Parliament elections. His research interests lie in the fields of EU studies, political psychology and survey research, with a particular focus on the study of public opinion, elections and party competition.

Dana Siobhan Atzpodien, M.A.

Former Research Fellow

Email: atzpodien@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49-251-83-24851
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Dana S. Atzpodien was a member of the RECONNECT Team Muenster from March 1st to September 30th, 2021. She is a research fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Münster. Her research interests include parties, party competition, and comparative research on parliaments. Moreover, she specializes in quantitative text analysis focusing on the ideological scaling of parliamentary debates.

Paul Meiners, M.A.

Former Research Fellow

Email: paul.meiners@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49-251-83-24942
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Paul Meiners was a member of the RECONNECT Team Muenster from March 1st to September 30th, 2021. He is a research fellow and doctoral researcher at the University of Münster, working in international relations and political psychology. His research investigates the effects of delegation to international organisations on attitudes towards them. Furthermore, he works on the effects of information processing on political attitudes.

Isabel Hoffmann
Luisa Kunze
Elena Otto-Erley

Former Student Assistants