About

Alexia Katsanidou is the scientific director of the GESIS Department Survey Data Curation and Professor of Empirical Social Research at the University of Cologne. Alexia Katsanidou is a comparative political scientist with an M.A. in Comparative Democratization (2003) and a Ph.D. in Politics (2008) from the Government Department at Essex University, UK. Before that she studied International Politics and Economics at the University of Macedonia in her home country Greece. An important step in her academic carrer was the Max Weber post-doc Fellowship in European University Institute (2009-2010). She is a member of the steering committee of the upcoming infrastructure MEDem (Monitoring Electoral Democracy) and the executive of the European Election Study Alexia Katsanidou specializes on the impact of crises and long-term inequalities on political attitudes and behaviours. She has worked on the impact of the financial, migration, and political crisis within the EU, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, on the individual, regional and national level.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Elections, European Politics, Electoral Behaviour, Public Opinion, European Parliament

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Southern European Politics
• Voting Advice Applications
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Political Representation
• Political Parties
• European Union
• Environmental Politics