Vera Troeger 

Vera Troeger is professor of Comparative Political Science at the University of Hamburg. Between 2007 and 2011 she was Director of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. Currently she serves as president of the European Political Science Association. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the flagship journal of the EPSA – Political Science Research and Methods, and she will take over as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Politics, one of the top 3 journals in Political Science, in 2020. Her research interests lie at the intersection between international and comparative political economy, labour economics, as well as applied quantitative data analysis and political methodology.

(University of Hamburg, Germany – vera.eva.troeger@uni-hamburg.de)