Miriam Runde

Miriam Runde is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University and a member of the research group “The New Climate Divide”, led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Endre Borbáth. In her dissertation project, she examines how climate change issues affect citizens’ political participation behavior in Europe. Her research interests lie in comparative party and participation research and in the formation and transformation of cleavages. Methodologically, she combines quantitative political science with computational social science methods, above all natural language processing for political texts.

Before her PhD, she worked as a research associate and social data scientist at INES Analytics GmbH, where she implemented the EU-funded project Compass-W on the development of a gender pay transparency index. She previously also worked as a policy consultant and project manager.