Alexander Bor

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I am a postdoc at the CEU Democracy Institute and a Visiting Professor at CEU Vienna. These days, I work primarily on the EU-funded ERA project called “How Effective are Illiberal Strategies of Citizen Manipulation?” (ICMAN).

I received a PhD in Political Science at Aarhus University in 2018, where I also worked as a postdoc until 2022. My research focuses on how the human mind navigates social and political challenges like acquiring and exchanging political information, understanding and sustaining democracy, or selecting and evaluating leaders. My work integrates insights from political science and psychology. I employ diverse quantitative analytical tools like surveys, experiments and machine learning. My work has been published in leading journals (e.g. Nature, PNAS, APSR, and Psych Science) and covered by international media outlets (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic).

I am an R enthusiast fascinated with data vizualization and Bayes. I do my best to promote and live up to the standards of open science. I am a proud father of two, a juvenile juggler, a curious cook, and a sourdough samurai.

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