Cornelius Erfort

Welcome! I am a Postdoc at Witten/Herdecke University, working on the DFG funded project Election Forecasts for the German Federal Election 2025 (zweitstimme.org). I'm also affiliated with the Humboldt Governance Lab.

My general interests are in comparative politics and quantitative methods. More specifically, I am working on voter targeting, interest groups, and voting behavior.

In my dissertation, I analyzed how parties use and tailor their digital election ads. I was member of the Research Training Group DYNAMICS which is jointly organized by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Hertie School. During my PhD, I visited the LSE Department of Government. I completed my pre-doctoral studies at the Humboldt-Universität, spent a semester at CIDE in Mexico City and have a background in mechanical engineering.

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