Elias Koch is a Doctoral Candidate at the Research Training Group DYNAMICS and a Research Associate at the Hertie School. He is mainly interested in party competition, legislative politics and quantitative methods. In his PhD, he examines the attitudinal and behavourial consequences of election polling among voters, politicians and parties. Elias graduated with an MA and BA from Humboldt-University Berlin (HU Berlin) with studies abroad at King's College London. Before starting his PhD, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Chairs of Comparative Political Behaviour (Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver) and German Politics (Prof. Dr. Jochen Müller/Prof. Dr. Andreas Schäfer) at HU Berlin, the Chair of Political Sociology and Methods at the University of Greifswald (Prof. Dr. Jochen Müller).
Main supervisor: Prof. Dr. Simon Munzert
Research/Policy Publications
Koch, Elias, and Andreas Küpfer. "The politics of seeking and avoiding discourse in parliament." European Journal of Political Research (2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.70013
Koch, Elias, Daniel Kuhlen, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2024), StatePol - A Database on the Members of German State Cabinets and Parliaments. German Political Science Quartlery (PVS),
