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Current Job Market Candidates of the Department of Political and Social Sciences

Please find more below about our job market researchers and their research

All our PhDs are reachable through email.

Martin Fischer is a PhD researcher in political economy at the European University Institute. His dissertation analyses how speculative dynamics shaped European monetary integration in the 1980s and 1990s. Having a background in Economics, he holds a Dual Master’s degree in European Affairs and Political Economy from Sciences Po and LSE and previously worked in banking supervision at the European Central Bank. During his PhD, he has been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po and Hertie School.

Job Market Paper: From Market Discipline to Monetary Integration: Germany’s Response to Financial Threats in the EMS

Email: martin.fischer@eui.eu

Research Interests: Political economy; Banking and finance; European integration; European Monetary Union; Financial markets.

 

Nahla Mansour is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute. She currently specializes in the electoral costs of parties’ political moderation, within the context of both political and ethnic competition. During her PhD, she also spent a visiting period at Central European University. She holds an International Master's in South European Studies EUROSUD. She also holds an MRes in Political Research from the EUI and a BA in Political Science from Cairo University.

Job Market Paper: Where Does Moderation Pay: District Magnitude, Ethnic Composition, and the Vote Shares of Moderate Parties

Email: nahla.mansour@eui.eu

Research Interest/s: Political behaviour, political parties, electoral systems, Ethnic politics, MENA politics.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit:  Personal website

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Karmen Misiou is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of Historical Political Economy and identity formation, with a particular focus on how experiences of discrimination influence assimilation decisions among minority communities in early 20th-century Europe and the United States. She holds an MSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and an MRes from the European University Institute. Her academic work has been recognized with multiple awards, reflecting both its scholarly contribution and broader relevance. Karmen’s job market paper investigates the effects of the 1924 Sunday closing law in Salonica, Greece—a policy that established Sunday as the official day of rest—on Jewish identity. By analyzing this case of state-imposed religious conformity, she offers novel insights into how legal and institutional discrimination can shape minority identity responses.

Job Market Paper: When Does Discrimination Trigger Identity Backlash?

Email:  karmen.misiou@eui.eu

Research Interest/s: Historical Political Economy, Identity Politics, Comparative Politics, Migration and Integration, Causal Inference

 

Pablo Cañete Pérez holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Universitat de Barcelona and a master’s degree in Social Sciences Research from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is currently completing his PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. His research explores the cultural foundations of democratic life, with a particular focus on how political institutions, economic transformations, and symbolic narratives interact to shape public legitimacy and policy outcomes. His work lies at the intersection of political sociology, historical institutionalism, and the study of democratic cultures in Southern Europe.

Job Market Paper: Whispers aloud: How democratic values shape narrative during austerity

Email: pablo.canete@eui.eu

Research Interest/s: Political culture, comparative politics, mixed methods, media analysis, elite studies

 

Nini Petriashvili is a PhD candidate at EUI. Her research focuses on two main areas. First, she studies political belief updating in the context of human - AI interaction, with particular attention to how different types of information environments (e.g., data voids) shape these processes. Second, she examines national identity formation and institutional development in post-Soviet countries.

Before joining EUI, she obtained master's degrees from Central European University (CEU) and the University of Mannheim. In 2026, she is a visiting scholar at the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University (NYU) and at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics (CSMaP).

Job Market Paper: When Search Engines Are Harmful: The Interplay Of Reflective Thinking And Motivated Reasoning In Susceptibility To Misinformation

Email: nini.petriashvili@eui.eu 

Research Interest/s: Political Communication, Search Engines, Social Media, Misinformation, Political Psychology, Political Economy

 

My research centers on digital spaces. I examine the political consequences of public debate increasingly taking place online, including how it shapes political preferences and behavior. I approach this agenda from two angles. First, I examine how this shift affects citizens’ access to political information. Second, I analyze how in-group dynamics in interactive spaces shape political preferences and behavior at both the individual and aggregate levels.

Job Market Paper: Online Political Influence: The Role of Groups (co-author: Henri Pozsar, EUI)

Research Interest/s: Social media, political behavior, public opinion, platform governance, algorithmic curation; content moderation, online communities; in-group dynamics.

Email: Cathrinevalentin.kjaer@eui.eu

 

Ingvild Zinober is a political scientist whose research lies at the intersection of gender studies and political behaviour. Her work examines how gender role identity influences political attitudes and voting behaviour. Ingvild is particularly interested in how masculinity norms and masculinising gender performance influence men’s political behaviour. In her dissertation, Ingvild draws on insights from gender research to formulate a new theoretical framework for studying the gender gap in views on climate and environmental politics.

Job Market Paper: Understanding the Green Gender Gap: Masculinity, Femininity, and Gender Role Identity

Email: Ingvild.zinober@gmail.xom 

Research Interest/s: Political behaviour, gender, climate and environmental politics.

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