Background and experience

Curriculum vitae

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Academic & professional positions

September 2025 - Present

PhD Researcher in Political Science & Teaching Assistant

Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Supervisor: Gizem Arikan

June 2022 - December 2023

Research Assistant

Research project “Interaction in Civil Society”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Conducting a panel study on the German population’s attitudes towards the war in Ukraine.
  • Data management and analysis.
June 2019 - October 2021

Working Student

SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag and SPD party executive committee, Berlin

  • Preparing press reports for members of parliament and staff.
  • Work in the strategic centre and competitive intelligence.
May 2017 - October 2018

Research Assistant

Center for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Research activities, data preparation, and analysis.

Education

September 2025 - Present

PhD in Political Science

Trinity College Dublin

Topic: Political Attitudes over the Lifecycle: Evolution and Mechanisms of Attitude Change Throughout Adulthood.

April 2020 - November 2023

Master’s Degree in Political Science (first class honours)

Freie Universität Berlin

Focus: experiments, quantitative methods, and political sociology.

October 2019 - June 2024

Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology (first class honours)

Freie Universität Berlin and Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Focus: biological, personality, and social psychology.

October 2015 - March 2019

Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (first class honours)

Freie Universität Berlin

Focus: political sociology and international relations.

Scholarships

2021 - 2022

Erasmus Scholarship

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2020 - 2023

Master’s Scholarship in Political Science

Friedrich Ebert Foundation

2015 - 2018

Bachelor’s Scholarship in Political Science

Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Research notes

2023

Geld für Rüstung ja, aber nicht 100 Milliarden

Ronja Demel and Onno Steenweg · WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) · 3 July 2023 · Research commentary

An analysis of public preferences for allocating Germany’s €100 billion special fund across policy areas, drawing on surveys from 2022 and 2023.

Read at WZB (German) · Project blog version (12 July 2023)

Conference presentations

February 2026

Political Attitudes over the Lifecycle: Evolution and Mechanisms of Attitude Change over Adulthood

6th Scientific Meeting of the Political Psychology Network DE, University of Vienna

Programme and abstract

Research methods

  • Quantitative methods
  • Longitudinal surveys
  • Panel-data analysis
  • Experiments

Software skills

  • RStudio
  • Python
  • LaTeX
  • Meltwater
  • Tableau
  • Confluence
  • Jira