Dr. Sophia Hunger

Sophia Hunger is a research fellow at the Center for Civil Society Research and is part of a research project on political radicalization and protest in Germany. She obtained her doctorate at the European University Institute, where she was involved in the ERC-POLCON project. Her PhD project deals with the impact of populist radical right parties on party competition in Europe. Methodologically, she takes a broad interest in quantitative methods, with a particular focus on text-as-data approaches.