Dr. Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti

Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti is a political scientist with a focus on comparative politics and political sociology, and specializes in quantitative social science. He works as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Civil Society Research,  a joint initiative of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Institute of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Previous to joining the WZB, Saldivia Gonzatti was a member of the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne (2017-2021), where he obtained his PhD in Political Science in 2022. He was a Visiting Scholar at PERIL at American University (2023) in Washington, DC and a Research Student Resident at Universidad Nacional de San Martín (2016) in Buenos Aires.

His research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, Journal of European Public Policy, and Public Administration Review. He regularly communicates with civil society actors, politicians and policy-makers about his research. He has contributed with expert inputs to various media outlets, such as The New York Times, WIRED, ZDF heute journal, ZEIT Online, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, taz, and O Globo.