Biography
Daniel Kovarek is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the EUI. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Central European University in Vienna, where his dissertation was recognized with the Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2023. Daniel currently studies representation, distributive politics, and the bureaucracy, for which he mostly applies surveys, experimental and big data methods. His work has appeared in journals such as European Union Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Democratization and Governance.
In the 2025/26 academic year, he is the coordinator of the EUI’s Eastern Europe as Laboratory of Change working group, an interdisciplinary forum that gathers scholars of all levels of seniority who study Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. He has been teaching a wide variety of graduate-level courses on applied statistics, experimental design, data visualization and programming at CEU, the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, and at colleges of Corvinus University of Budapest, but also in various summer and winter schools of MethodsNet and ECPR at Konstanz, Nijmegen, Vienna, and Leuven, among others. In 2022, he received the Dirk Berg-Schlosser Award from ECPR for outstanding pedagogy.