Richard Traunmüller

I am a Professor of Political Science and Empirical Democracy Research in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim and scientific director of the German Internet Panel (GIP). I was born in Austria but grew up in Mexico, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Thailand, and now commute to and from Slovenia. Before coming to Mannheim, I held academic positions at Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of Essex, the University of Berne and the University of Konstanz. I study the socio-structural and psycho-cultural requisites of democracy with a strong focus on problems of social cohesion and conflict. My current research involves the politics of free speech and censorship, citizens’ preferences for migration policy, and the civic consequences of wartime sexual violence. I also have a keen interest in quantitative political methodology, including Bayesian methods, data visualization and survey experiments. My work has been published in American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis, among others.