Sebastian Hellmeier

Sebastian Hellmeier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the research unit Transformations of Democracy at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a Research Associate at the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem) in Gothenburg. Prior to joining the WZB, he was a Postdoc at the University of Gothenburg and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Konstanz, where he worked on the Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database (MMAD).

His research interests include autocratization processes, political protest and contentious politics as well as the comparative study of authoritarian regimes using quantitative methods. Results from his research have been published in Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of International Relations, Democratization and Political Science Research and Methods.