Biography
Lennart Schürmann is a comparative political scientist working on mobilisation, political behaviour, and democratic representation in Europe. At the European University Institute, his research examines how citizens and collective actors, from social movements to political parties, shape and respond to political events across electoral and contentious channels, drawing on quasi-experimental designs and computational methods. A central strand of his work and teaching focuses on how societies mobilise around environmental and technological transformation, including citizen and civil society resistance to artificial intelligence governance across Europe.
Lennart is also a DAAD PRIME Fellow, affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. Before coming to the EUI, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies at Harvard University and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. He received his PhD from the University of Cologne, where he was a member of the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
His work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, and Political Behavior, among others.