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Contact

Here you can find the contact details of our team members.

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Paul Bederke

Department of Political Science – Aarhus University

Bartholins Allé 7, Building 1332

8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

Email: paulbederke@ps.au.dk

I am a PhD student at Aarhus University, interested in climate-related disasters and their effect on women's political participation. Previously, I worked at GESIS — Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences and at Gothenburg University. From 2020/06 to 2026/07, I was the project coordinator of Party Facts.

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Dr. Lea Kaftan

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

50667 Cologne

Germany

Email: lea.kaftan@gesis.org

I am a senior researcher at GESIS — Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, and affiliated with the MEDem project (medem.eu) and my alma mater, the University of Cologne. I am a big fan of democracy, survey research, political elites, and computational social sciences.