Dr. Manès Weisskircher
Dr. Manès Weisskircher leads the BMBF-funded research group REXKLIMA (Far-right politics versus climate action?) at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden. Moreover, he is affiliated to the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo, and the Center for Civil Society Research, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). He holds a PhD from the European University Institute (2019).
Dr. Weisskircher's research focuses on social movements, political parties, democracy, and the far right. His research has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, Political Studies, Government & Opposition, Social Movement Studies, German Politics, Politics and Governance, Sociological Perspectives, etc. He is one of the authors of 'Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose' (Oxford University Press). Please find a full list of publications here.
In the past Dr. Weisskircher taught at universities in Boon, Bucharest, Düsseldorf, Dresden and Vienna and at the social science college of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
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